TY - BOOK AU - Heba Mosad Abdelaty Elbatal AU - Iman Ezzat Wali , AU - Mona Mahmoud Ezzat , TI - Detection of vancomycin reduced susceptibility among methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus isolates using different susceptibility testing methods / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Heba Mosad Abdelaty Elbatal , KW - MRSA KW - Reduced susceptibility KW - Vancomycin N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Issued also as CD N2 - Since the emergence of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin has been the standard treatment for MRSA infections. The incidence reduced susceptibility to vancomycin is increasing in various parts of the world. The vast majority of clinical laboratories use disk diffusion method as the routine susceptibility testing which is not accurate in detection vancomycin's reduced susceptibility ER -