Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Boutiba-Ben Boubaker, I.
• Ben Abbes, R.
• Ben Abdallah, H.
• Mamlouk, K
• Mahjoubi, F
• Kammoun, A
• Hammami, A
• Ben Redjeb, S.

Titel

Evaluation of a cefoxitin disk diffusion test for the routine detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Ist Teil von

• Clinical microbiology and infection, 2004-08, Vol.10 (8), p.762-765

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Two oxacillin disk methods were compared with a cefoxitin disk diffusion test for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), with PCR for mecA as the reference method. When tested with 115 MRSA and 350 methicillin-susceptible S. aureus isolates, the cefoxitin disk test (specificity 100%, sensitivity 96.5%) was superior to the oxacillin disk methods (specificity 99.1%, sensitivity 90.4%). Testing with both oxacillin and cefoxitin disks would give better sensitivity (100%) than the cefoxitin test alone, but at the expense of specificity (99.1%). The cefoxitin disk test required no special test conditions and would improve the reliability of routine tests for detection of MRSA.