Comparison of Culture-Based Methods for Identification of Colonization with Methicillin-Resistant and Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in the Context of Cocolonization
Two screening methods to detect staphylococcal colonization in humans were compared. Direct plating to CHROMagar (BD Diagnostics) was compared to a broth preenrichment followed by plating to Baird-Parkeragar. The broth-enrichment method was comparable to CHROMagar for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA) detection, but the enrichment method was optimum for recovery of coagulase-positive Staphylococcus spp.
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Date
April 27, 2016
Conference or Journal
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Author(s)
Meghan F.Davis
Baofeng Hu
Karen C.Carroll
Warren B.Bilker
Pam Tolomeo
Valerie C. Cluzet
Patrick Baron
Jacqueline M. Ferguson
Daniel O.Morris
Shelley C.Rankin
Ebbing Lautenbach
Irving Nachamkin