Antibiotic heteroresistance is a phenotype in which a bacterial isolate contains
subpopulations of cells that show a substantial reduction in antibiotic susceptibility …

SUMMARY “Heteroresistance” describes a phenomenon where subpopulations of
seemingly isogenic bacteria exhibit a range of susceptibilities to a particular antibiotic …

These evidence-based guidelines have been produced after a literature review of the
laboratory diagnosis and susceptibility testing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus …

Very-low-level methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), or class 1 MRSA, is
often misdiagnosed as methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA). We evaluated the …

ABSTRACT A PCR identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA),
obviating the need for subculture on agar media, was investigated. The combination of …

This review aims to discuss expert systems in general and how they may be used in
medicine as a whole and clinical microbiology in particular (with the aid of interpretive …

Methicillin/oxacillin-resistant staphylococci are heterogeneous in their expression of
resistance to β-lactam agents and the test conditions have a major effect on the expression …

Ninety clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates from separate patients were examined
phenotypically and genotypically for susceptibility to methicillin/oxacillin. Thirty were …

Using a set of 55 Staphylococcus aureus challenge organisms, we evaluated six routine
methods (broth microdilution, disk diffusion, oxacillin agar screen, MicroScan conventional …

Clin Microbiol Infect 2012; 18: E31–E33 Abstract The nose is the anatomical site usually
recommended for methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening. Other …