Correlation of Oxacillin MIC with mecA Gene Carriage in Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci

The National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards has recently changed the oxacillin breakpoint from ≥4 mg/liter to ≥0.5 mg/liter to detect methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) because the previous breakpoint lacked sensitivity. To determine the correlation between th...

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Main Authors: Hussain, Zafar, Stoakes, Luba, Massey, Viki, Diagre, Deb, Fitzgerald, Viivi, El Sayed, Sameer, Lannigan, Robert
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2000
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Bacteriology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC86195/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10655380
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