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Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions, 2nd ed

1981 • 3,735 citations

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1982 • 1,412 citations

The Clinical Significance of Positive Blood Cultures: A Comprehensive Analysis of 500 Episodes of Bacteremia and Fungemia in Adults. I. Laboratory and Epidemiologic Observations

1983 • 744 citations

Infections of Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts: Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations, and Therapy

1975 • 586 citations

Adherence and Growth of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci on Surfaces of Intravenous Catheters

1982 • 571 citations

Deep wound sepsis following total hip arthroplasty

1977 • 480 citations

Staphylococcus epidermidis: An Increasing Cause of Infection in Patients with Granulocytopenia

1982 • 456 citations

Peritonitis During Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis

1980 • 409 citations

Staphylococcus epidermidis Causing Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: Microbiologic and Clinical Observations as Guides to Therapy

1983 • 399 citations

Sternal and costochondral infections following open-heart surgery

1976 • 358 citations

Nosocomial Septicemia Due to Multiply Antibiotic-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis

1982 • 330 citations

EFFECT OF EXTRACELLULAR SLIME SUBSTANCE FROM STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS ON THE HUMAN CELLULAR IMMUNE RESPONSE

1984 • 270 citations

Characterization of clinically significant strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci

1983 • 241 citations

Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcal Bacteremia in Patients Receiving Immunosuppressive Therapy

1983 • 233 citations

Experimental foreign body infections in mice challenged with slime-producing Staphylococcus epidermidis

1983 • 213 citations

Excessive Production of Mucoid Substance in Staphylococcus SIIA: a Possible Factor in Colonisation of Holter Shunts

1972 • 182 citations

Clinical and microbial features of prosthetic joint infection

1984 • 175 citations

Microbial colonization of prosthetic devices. II. Scanning electron microscopy of naturally infected intravenous catheters.

1981 • 156 citations

Examination of the morphology of bacteria adhering to peritoneal dialysis catheters by scanning and transmission electron microscopy

1983 • 144 citations

Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis

2007 • 140 citations

Bacteremias and Fungemias in Oncologic Patients With Central Venous Catheters

1982 • 140 citations

Approaching the controversies in antibacterial management of cancer patients

1984 • 130 citations

Scanning electron microscopy of bacteria adherent to intravascular catheters

1984 • 130 citations

Mediastinitis After Cardiovascular Surgery

1983 • 119 citations

Plasmid-Pattern Analysis for the Differentiation of Infecting from Noninfecting Staphylococcus epidermidis

1984 • 110 citations

Etiology and Diagnosis of Bacterial Postoperative Endophthalmitis

1978 • 101 citations

Nosocomial infections in the immunocompromised adult

1981 • 100 citations

Infections associated with subclavian Uldall catheters

1983 • 98 citations

Production of Experimental Endocarditis by Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci: Variability in Species Virulence

1984 • 86 citations

Catheter sepsis due to Staphylococcus epidermidis during parenteral nutrition.

1980 • 70 citations

Microbial colonization of prosthetic devices. III. Adhesion of staphylococci to lumina of intravenous catheters perfused with bacterial suspensions.

1981 • 59 citations

Microbial colonization of prosthetic devices. I. Microtopographical characteristics of intravenous catheters as detected by scanning electron microscopy.

1981 • 53 citations

Treatment of Subacute Sepsis of the Hip by Antibiotics and Joint Replacement Criteria For Diagnosis With Evaluation of Twenty-Six Cases

1979 • 47 citations

Fatal Staphylococcus epidermidis sepsis following bone marrow transplantation.

1980 • 46 citations

Incidence, adherence, and antibiotic resistance of coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species causing human disease

1984 • 43 citations

Characteristics and Sequelae of Peritonitis in Diabetics and Nondiabetics Receiving Chronic Intermittent Peritoneal Dialysis

1983 • 23 citations

Incidence and significance of central nervous system infection in neurosurgical patients.

1974 • 14 citations

Staphylococcus epidermis Mediastinitis and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

1984 • 11 citations