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Phenotypic and genotypic methods for the detection of methicillin resistant coagulase negative staphylococci: a comparative study.
The Journal of communicable diseases - 1 Mar 2011
Singh Shubhra, Banerjee Gopa, Agarwal S K, Kumar Mala, Rajput Anuradha, Singh R K
Abstract excerpt
CONS are the major cause of nosocomial infection in last decade and methicillin resistant CoNS has emerged as a major clinical problem. The present study was to compare different phenotypic methods with genotypic method PCR, for the detection of methicillin resistance in CoNS. 100 CoNS isolates from different samples were studied for the detection of mecA gene. PCR was considered as "gold standard". Oxacillin and...
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