| Literature DB >> 20810780 |
Thomas Vanassche1, Jan Verhaegen, Willy E Peetermans, Marc F Hoylaerts, Peter Verhamme.
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The ability of Staphylococcus aureus to clot plasma through conformational activation of prothrombin by staphylocoagulase is used to distinguish S. aureus from coagulase-negative staphylococci. We show that while the direct thrombin inhibitor dabigatran inhibits staphylocoagulase activity, the clinical use of dabigatran etexilate is not expected to interfere with direct tube coagulase testing.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20810780 PMCID: PMC3020810 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00896-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948