BBL CHROMagar Staph aureus Is Superior to Mannitol Salt for Detection ofStaphylococcus aureusin Complex Mixed Infections

Isolation of Staphylococcus aureus from sputum in cystic fibrosis.

The success in the isolation of Staphylococcus aureus of different methods of sputum processing was investigated in 60 specimens collected from 14 patients with cystic fibrosis during a seven-month period. Fifty specimens (83%) from 11 patients yielded Staph. aureus by one or more methods. Direct plating of purulent portions of sputum on to media designed for general use in respiratory infectio...

Performance of the chromogenic medium CHROMagar Staph Aureus and the Staphychrom coagulase test in the detection and identification of Staphylococcus aureus in clinical specimens.

CHROMagar Staph aureus (CSAM) (CHROMagar Microbiology, Paris, France) is a new chromogenic medium designed to enable detection of colonies of Staphylococcus aureus by their pink color. A total of 775 specimens were cultured in parallel on CHROMagar Staph aureus and conventional media. Among the 267 S. aureus strains recovered on at least one medium, 263 were isolated on CSAM medium (sensitivity...

Evaluation of The BIOMIC V3 Microbiology System for Identification of Selected Species on BBL CHROMagar Orientation and CHROMagar MRSA

Methicillin-sensitive Staph. aureus (MSSA) and methicillin-resistant Staph. aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia decline simulaneously

Methods From April 2008 to March 2010, at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHNT), electronic microbiological records of patients with SAB were linked with patient administration data to determine if the S. aureus was meticillin-sensitive or resistant, and if infection was CA or HA. SAB within 2 days of admission was defined as CA, 2 days or more after admission as HA and a new episode if...

Evaluation of a new selective medium, BD BBL CHROMagar MRSA II, for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in stool specimens.

We compared the recovery of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on a new selective chromogenic agar, BD BBL CHROMagar MRSA II (CMRSAII), to that on traditional culture media with 293 stool specimens. The recovery of MRSA was greater on the CMRSAII agar. Screening of stool samples can identify patients who were previously unknown carriers of MRSA.