Evaluation of a commercial latex agglutination test for identification of Staphylococcus aureus.
AUTOR(ES)
Doern, G V
RESUMO
A new, commercially available latex agglutination test (SeroSTAT Staph; Scott Laboratories, Inc., Fiskeville, R.I.) was compared with the tube coagulase and slide coagulase tests as means for identifying Staphylococcus aureus. Of 160 clinical isolates of S. aureus, 159 (99.4%) yielded positive results with the latex agglutination test. Negative latex agglutination test results were obtained with 266 of 267 clinical isolates of Micrococcus spp. and staphylococcal species other than S. aureus (99.6%). The latex agglutination test was found to be a rapid, technically nondemanding method for identifying S. aureus. It was as accurate as the tube coagulase test and more accurate than the slide coagulase test.
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