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Bacteraemia with tube-coagulase-negative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
  Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is among the most common hospital-acquired pathogens, and prevalence rates in the UK are amongst the highest in Europe.1 Routine identification of S. aureus in the medical microbiology laboratory is based on the production of coagulase and deoxyribonuclease (DNase), with tube coagulase used as the definitive test for the identification of S. aureus.2 We report the case of a patient from whom a tube-coagulase-negative EMRSA-15 was isolated in blood culture, and discuss the implications of this finding for clinical microbiology laboratories

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    30 November 2004

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    WB Saunders

  • DOI:

    10.1016/j.jhin.2004.10.006

  • ISSN:

    0195-6701

  • Library of Congress:

    QR Microbiology

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    579 Microorganisms, fungi & algae

Citation

Olver, W. J., Carmichael, I. C., Ziglam, H. M. & Morrison, D. (2004). Bacteraemia with tube-coagulase-negative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Hospital Infection. 60, 87-88. doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2004.10.006. ISSN 0195-6701

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Keywords

Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); Methicillin-resistant; hospital-acquired pathogen;

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