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Screening media for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from non-sterile body sites
D J Flournoy1, S Wongpradit, S L Silberg
1Laboratory Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center (113), Oklahoma City, OK.
Medical Microbiology and Immunology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Four hundred and forty clinical isolates were tested on Baird-Parker and Vogel-Johnson agars with 6 micrograms/ml of oxacillin, to determine their growth characteristics on these potential screening media for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). While both media performed well individually, a combination biplate with each medium may be the most useful in screening patients for MRSA from normally non-sterile sites.