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Detection of vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a comparative study of three different phenotypic screening methods.
Indian journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jan 2005
Bhateja P, Mathur T, Pandya M, Fatma T, Rattan A
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The objective of this study was to investigate screening methodologies, to detect Staphylococcus aureus strains with decreased susceptibility to vancomycin. Three methods were used to screen 160 Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates along with ATCC quality control strains. Subsequently, MIC of all these 160 strains were determined by NCCLS methodology. The MIC of all the 160 clinical isolates was < or = 4...
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