Use of a primary isolation medium for recovery of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- 1 February 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 30 (2) , 504-5
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.30.2.504-505.1992
Abstract
Clinical specimens frequently contain methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates in low numbers or mixed with methicillin-susceptible staphylococci, which can obscure MRSA on nonselective media. By using an oxacillin-containing mannitol-salt-based selective and differential medium on 936 respiratory specimens, we recovered 45% more MRSA isolates (29 versus 20) than on nonselective media alone.Keywords
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