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[Comparison of the value of disk diffusion methods and polymerase chain reaction for fixation of methicillin resistant staphylococcus].
Mikrobiyoloji bulteni - 1 Jan 2000
Sancak Banu, Ercis Serpil, Hasçelik Gülşen
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The detection of methicillin resistance with an appropriate method has a great importance in the treatment of infectious diseases caused by staphylococci. This study was set out to compare disk diffusion method as a phenotypic method, with polymerase chain reaction (PCR), as a genotypic method, for the detection of methicillin resistance in staphylococci. A total of 406 staphylococci strains that were isolated...
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