Identification and susceptibility testing of Staphylococcus aureus by direct inoculation from positive BACTEC blood culture bottles

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 84-86

  Diederen, B M W ^a   Zieltjens, M ^a   van Wetten, H ^a   Buiting, A G M ^a  

^a Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BACTEC; Blood cultures; Coagulase negative staphylococci; Direct identification; Staphylococcus aureus; Susceptibility testing

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COAGULASE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NITROFURANTOIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PRISTINAMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INOCULATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33644873119     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2005.01314.x     Document Type: Article

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