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Biosensor for Detection of Antibiotic Resistant Staphylococcus Bacteria
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Identification of oxacillin-susceptible and oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus using commercial latex
W C Summers1, E S Brookings, K B Waites
1Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35233, USA.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|April 29, 1998
Abstract:
Four hundred thirteen Staphylococcus sp. were identified by Staphaurex, Staphaurex Plus, and BACTiStaph kits using tube coagulase as reference. Among 222 coagulase-positive isolates, 56 were oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. All tests were accurate in distinguishing between coagulase-positive and -negative staphylococci with sensitivities and specificities > or = 97% and only nine discrepancies.
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