Performance of MRSA ID chromogenic medium for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus directly from blood cultures and clinical specimens

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-323

  Colakoglu, Sule ^a   Aliskan, Hikmet ^a   Senger, Suheyla Serin ^a   Turunc, Tuba ^a   Demiroglu, Yusuf Ziya ^a   Arslan, Hande ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistance; MRSA ID; S. aureus

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A;

ABSCESS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; INOCULATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ABSCESS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHROMOGENIC COMPOUNDS; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 35548989789     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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