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Reliability of two novel methods, Alamar and E test, for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
S M Novak1, J Hindler, D A Bruckner
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA Medical Center 90024-1713.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|November 1, 1993
Abstract:
E test strips (AB Biodisk, Culver City, Calif.) tested on 2% NaCl-supplemented Mueller-Hinton agar and Alamar panels (Alamar, Sacramento, Calif.) correctly characterized 127 of 127 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates and 100 of 100 methicillin-susceptible S. aureus isolates. These overnight antimicrobial susceptibility test systems reliably detect this clinically important resistance.