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V Cafiso1, T Bertuccio, D Spina, S Purrello, G Blandino, Stefania Stefani.
Abstract
We assessed a new screening method, based on δ-hemolysin production in the presence of 6 mg/liter vancomycin, to distinguish heteroresistant vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) and vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (VISA) from vancomycin-susceptible S. aureus (VSSA). On 37 clinical methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) isolates, hVISA and VISA displayed no δ-hemolysis whereas VSSA displayed strong δ-hemolysis, showing 91.6% sensitivity. These data, supported by real-time reverse transcription PCR (real-time RT-PCR) highlighting an hld downregulation, i.e., VSSA>hVISA>VISA, define this new assay as a valid screening method.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22403425 PMCID: PMC3347129 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.06307-11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948