Bacteraemia with tube-coagulase-negative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Olver, W J; Carmichael, I C; Ziglam, H M; Morrison, Donald

Abstract

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is among the most common hospital-acquired pathogens, and prevalence rates in the UK are amongst the highest in Europe.1 Routine identification of S. aureus in the medical microbiology laboratory is based on the production of coagulase and deoxyribonuclease (DNase), with tube coagulase used as the definitive test for the identification of S. aureus.2 We report the case of a patient from whom a tube-coagulase-negative EMRSA-15 was isolated in blood culture, and discuss the implications of this finding for clinical microbiology laboratories

Citation

Olver, W. J., Carmichael, I. C., Ziglam, H. M., & Morrison, D. (2005). Bacteraemia with tube-coagulase-negative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Hospital Infection, 60(1), 87-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2004.10.006

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2005-05
• Deposit Date: Jun 15, 2015
• Print ISSN: 0195-6701
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 87-88
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2004.10.006
• Keywords: Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); Methicillin-resistant; hospital-acquired pathogen
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8707
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2004.10.006