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Dafne Bongiorno
Researcher at University of Catania
Publications - 48
Citations - 977
Dafne Bongiorno is an academic researcher from University of Catania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Staphylococcus aureus & Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 39 publications receiving 765 citations.
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Sensitivity assessment of droplet digital PCR for SARS-CoV-2 detection.
Luca Falzone,Nicolò Musso,Giuseppe Gattuso,Dafne Bongiorno,Concetta Ilenia Palermo,Guido Scalia,Massimo Libra,Stefania Stefani +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the sensitivity of droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) and reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), and concluded that ddPCR showed higher sensitivity and specificity compared to RT-q-PCR for the diagnosis of COVID-19 infection in false negative samples with low viral load.
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Hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) in Italy
TL;DR: The alternation of MRSA clones that occurred in hospitals from 1990 to 2007 and the increase of the glycopeptide MIC levels, reflecting a worldwide trend are described.
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Linezolid Resistance in Staphylococci
TL;DR: Data reported in patent applications demonstrated that some oxazolidinone derivatives, also with improved characteristics with respect to linezolid, are presently under study: at least three of them are in an advanced phase of development.
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DNA methylase modifications and other linezolid resistance mutations in coagulase-negative staphylococci in Italy
Dafne Bongiorno,Floriana Campanile,Gino Mongelli,Maria Teresa Baldi,Rosamaria Provenzani,Silvia Reali,Carolina Lo Russo,Maria Santagati,Stefania Stefani +8 more
TL;DR: Clinical CoNS strains with resistance to linezolid and other second-line antibiotics, as well as reduced susceptibility to glycopeptides, have emerged in Italy.
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Characterization of a variant of the SCCmec element in a bloodstream isolate of Staphylococcus intermedius.
Floriana Campanile,Dafne Bongiorno,Sonia Borbone,Mario Venditti,Maddalena Giannella,Cristiana Franchi,Stefania Stefani +6 more
TL;DR: A detailed characterization of a variant of the SCCmec element, in a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus intermedius human isolate is reported for the first time.