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Laboratory evaluation of phenotypic detection methods of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Biomedical journal - 1 Jan 2000
Kali Arunava, Stephen Selvaraj, Umadevi Sivaraman
Abstract excerpt
Although conventional antibiotic susceptibility tests are most commonly performed for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the results of these phenotypic tests are dependent on the standardization of the culture conditions. The aim of the study was to evaluate the conventional phenotypic screening tests in comparison to the mecA gene polymerase chain reaction (PCR). One hundred and two clinical...
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