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SUBMITTER: Davis MF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4922128 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Davis Meghan F MF Hu Baofeng B Carroll Karen C KC Bilker Warren B WB Tolomeo Pam P Cluzet Valerie C VC Baron Patrick P Ferguson Jacqueline M JM Morris Daniel O DO Rankin Shelley C SC Lautenbach Ebbing E Nachamkin Irving I
Journal of clinical microbiology 20160427 7
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-Parker agar. 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. ...[more]