They are gram positive bacteria that are small round in shape (cocci) and occur as clusters appearing like a bunch of grapes on electron microscopy. Staphylococcus were earlier divided into two ...

the PPV was only 38.4% for gram-positive cocci. In the catheter subgroup, the presence of monomorphic bacteria quantified as "many" had a higher PPV for diagnosing a UTI than the presence of ...

infections versus Gram-positive cocci (GPC) infection prior to obtaining final culture results is of value in order to appropriately guide expirical therapy. We sought to compare laboratory and ...