Evaluation of a commercial latex agglutination test for identification of Staphylococcus aureus
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Evaluation of three commercial agglutination tests for the identification of Staphylococcus aureus.
Three commercially available rapid slide agglutination tests for the identification of Staphylococcus aureus were evaluated with 354 recent clinical isolates (165 strains of S. aureus). The test results of two latex agglutination products, SeroSTAT Staph (Scott Laboratories, Inc.) and Staphylatex (American Micro Scan), and one hemagglutination product, Staphyloslide (BBL Microbiology Systems), ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.15.3.416-418.1982