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Oxacillin susceptibility testing of staphylococci directly from Bactec Plus blood cultures by the BBL Crystal MRSA ID
M Kubina1, B Jaulhac, X Delabranche
1Institut de Bactériologie, Faculté de Médecine et Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|May 15, 1999
Abstract:
The BBL Crystal MRSA ID test (Becton Dickinson) was applied directly to blood culture vials containing clusters of gram-positive cocci. The sensitivity and specificity of the test were 84 and 100% and 54 and 100% for vials containing Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci, respectively. This test is a reliable method for direct detection of methicillin resistance in positive blood culture vials when S. aureus is identified in parallel by rapid identification procedures.