TY - BOOK AU - May Mohamed Sherif Soliman AU - Afaf Mohamed Sami Elbanna , AU - Iman Kamal Behery , AU - Mervat Gaber Abdelwahab , TI - Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus screening in blood culture , simple anti - PBP2a slide agglutination Kit , MRSA chromagar and conventional dise diffusion method / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - May Mohamed Sherif Soliman , KW - Chromagar KW - MRSA KW - PBP2a N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology; Issued also as CD N2 - In critically ill patients MRSA bacteraemia was found to have a higher attributable mortality in comparison to MSSA bacteremia. The optimal phenotypic method for detecting methicillin resistance in S. aureus remains controversial. This work aimed at evaluating the utility of chromagar directly from positive blood culture bootles for rapid diagnosis of MRSA , and comparing it with MRSA latex test , and disc diffusion method UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -