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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-2-12
pubmed:abstractText
The National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards recommends 48 h of incubation by the oxacillin salt agar screen (OSAS) method for the detection of methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS). An earlier identification of methicillin resistance is desirable. The time to detection of the mecA gene by PCR was compared with the times to detection by OSAS, by the oxacillin disk diffusion (ODD) method, and with MicroScan Gram Positive Combo type 6 panels (MicroScan Inc. Sacramento, Calif.) and Vitek GPS-SA cards (bioMérieux Vitek Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.). The combination of the Vitek card and the ODD method detected 92 of 99 methicillin-resistant strains of CoNS at 24 h; however, 6 mecA-positive strains were phenotypically methicillin susceptible. We conclude that most methicillin-resistant CoNS can be detected and the results can be reported after overnight incubation by a combination of methods.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0095-1137
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
36
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
273-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Evaluation of screening and commercial methods for detection of methicillin resistance in coagulase-negative staphylococci.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Microbiology, London Health Sciences Centre, University of Western Ontario, Canada. Zafar.Hussain@lhsc.on.ca
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article