Oxacillin susceptibility testing of coagulase-negative staphylococci using the disk diffusion method and the Vitek GPS-105 card

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 291-294

  Woods, Wendi ^a   Ramotar, Karam ^a,b   Lem, Paul ^b   Toye, Baldwin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; OXACILLIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIFFUSION; DILUTION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PENICILLINS; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0036234465     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(02)00365-6     Document Type: Article

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