Short communication: Use of cefoxitin disc diffusion method for the detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates;Kisa bi̇ldi̇ri̇: Staphylococcus aureus kli̇ni̇k i̇zolatlarinda meti̇si̇li̇n di̇renci̇ni̇n tespi̇ti̇ i̇çi̇n sefoksi̇ti̇n di̇sk di̇füzyon yöntemi̇ni̇n kullanimi

Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-113

  Çoban, Ahmet Yilmaz ^a   Darka, Özge ^a   Taşdelen Fişgin, Nuriye ^a   Aksakal Tanyel, Esra ^a   Çetinkaya Şensoy, Ebru ^a   Hepsert, Serkan Ali ^a   Birinci, Asuman ^a   Durupinar, Belma ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cefoxitin disc diffusion method; Methicillin resistant S.aureus; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFOXITIN; OXACILLIN;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFOXITIN; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OXACILLIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34748867955     PISSN: 03749096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Velasco D, Tomas MM, Cartelle M, et al. Evaluation of different methods for detecting methicillin (oxacillin) resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. J Antimicrob Chemother 2005; 55: 379-82.
2. Fernandes CJ, Fernandes LA, Collignon P. Cefoxitin resistance as a surrogate marker for the detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Antimicrob Chemother 2005, 55; 506-10.
3. th ed. Approved Standard M7-A5, NCCLS, Wayne, PA.
4. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute. Performance standards for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. 2004, 16th Informational Supplement M100-S14, CLSI, Wayne, PA.
5. Felten A, Grandry B, Lagrange PH, Casin I. Evaluation of three techniques for detection of low-level methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): a disk diffusion method with cefoxitin and moxalactam, the Vitek 2 system, and the MRSA-Screen latex agglutination test. J Clin Microbiol 2002; 40: 2766-71.
6. Boubaker IBB, Abbes RB, Abdallah HB, et al. Evaluation of a cefoxitin disk diffusion test for the routine detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Clin Microbiol Infect 2004; 10: 762-5.
7. Sharp SE, Warren JA, Thomson RB Jr. Cefoxitin disk diffusion screen for confirmation of oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates and utility in the clinical laboratory. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2005; 51: 69-71.