Screening and detection of heterogenous vancomycin intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in Hospital Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, using the glycopeptide resistance detection etest and population analysis profiling

Screening and detection of heterogenous vancomycin intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in Hospital Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, using the glycopeptide resistance detection etest and population analysis profiling

In a 3-month study done in Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL), 7 out of 320 methicillin resistant <em>Staphylococcus aureus </em>isolates were confirmed as heterogeneous vancomycin intermediate S. aureus (hVISA) using the glycopeptide resistance detection e-test and population analysis, giving...

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Main Authors:	Siti Roszilawati Ramli, Hui-min Neoh, Muhammad Nazri Aziz, Salasawati Hussin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2012-03-01
Series:	Infectious Disease Reports
Subjects:	heterogenous vancomycin intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) Hospital Kuala Lumpur
Online Access:	http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/idr/article/view/3836

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