Staphaurex
National Institutes of Health
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In two recent articles in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology , Qian et al. ([4][1]) and Lagace-Wiens et al. ([2][2]) describe a…
Staphylococcus aureus has been well known as a major pathogen for many years, causing a variety of nosocomial infections. The…
The laboratory isolation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is now commonplace. Part of the screening…
Five commercial Staphylococcus aureus identification kits--Staphaurex (Wellcome), Staphylase (Oxoid), Staphyslide (bioMèrieux…
We evaluated the reliability of Staphaurex (Wellcome Diagnostics, Dartford, England) for the direct identification of…
Four commercially available slide agglutination systems for identifying Staphylococcus aureus were compared with the conventional…
The production of free coagulase, as detected by the tube coagulase test, is considered to be the definitive means of identifying…
Although a latex agglutination test (StaphAurex) and a hemagglutination test (Staphyloslide) correctly identified all strains of…
Several commercial systems are available to distinguish between Staphylococcus aureus and the coagulase-negative species of the…
Commercial latex agglutination tests (LATs) for the simultaneous detection of clumping factor and protein A are gaining increased…