Evaluation of various methods for the detection of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains and susceptibility patterns

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1613-1616

  Datta, Priya ^a   Gulati, Neelam ^a   Singla, Nidhi ^a   Vasdeva, Hena Rani ^a   Bala, Kiran ^a   Chander, Jagdish ^a   Gupta, Varsha ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE; OXACILLIN;

AGAR DIFFUSION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CEFOXITIN DISC DIFFUSION; CHROMAGAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; OXACILLIN DISC DIFFUSION; OXACILLIN SCREEN AGAR; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

HUMANS; IMMUNODIFFUSION; INDIA; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 80054722431     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.032219-0     Document Type: Article

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