Affiliation:
1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio 43205.
Abstract
We evaluated the reliability of Staphaurex (Wellcome Diagnostics, Dartford, England) for the direct identification of staphylococci from blood culture broth with evidence of positivity and a suggestive Gram-stained smear. Our evaluation indicates that this application is of limited sensitivity, thus reducing the value of a negative test. However, since the test is highly specific, a positive test is significant in predicting the isolation of Staphylococcus aureus.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Cited by
8 articles.
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