Issues in the Identification and Susceptibility Testing of Staphylococci

Staphylococci in Human Disease: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 235-252

  Forbes, Betty A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial biochemical tests; Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared commercial assay, IDI MRSA; Genotypic methods in methicillin resistance detection; Macrolide resistance and other resistance in staphylococci; Methicillin (oxacillin) resistance; Molecular methods for Staphylococcus aureus; Staphylococcal resistance to variant lactam antibiotics two major mechanisms; Staphylococci identification and susceptibility testing; Tube coagulase measuring production of free (extracellular) coagulase, staphylocoagulase; Typing of staphylococci

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EID: 84865975193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308464.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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