Screening and detection of heterogenous vancomycin intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in Hospital Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, using the glycopeptide resistance detection etest and population analysis profiling

Siti Roszilawati Ramli; Hui-min Neoh; Muhammad Nazri Aziz; Salasawati Hussin

doi:10.4081/idr.2012.3836

Infectious Disease Reports (Mar 2012)

Screening and detection of heterogenous vancomycin intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in Hospital Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, using the glycopeptide resistance detection etest and population analysis profiling

Siti Roszilawati Ramli,
Hui-min Neoh,
Muhammad Nazri Aziz,
Salasawati Hussin

Affiliations

Siti Roszilawati Ramli: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre; Institute for Medical Research, Malaysia Jalan Paha
Hui-min Neoh: UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, University Kebangsaan Malaysia
Muhammad Nazri Aziz: Department of Pathology, Hospital Kuala Lumpur,
Salasawati Hussin: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Medical Centre

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.3836
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. e20 – e20

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In a 3-month study done in Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL), 7 out of 320 methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates were confirmed as heterogeneous vancomycin intermediate S. aureus (hVISA) using the glycopeptide resistance detection e-test and population analysis, giving a prevalence rate of 2.19%. This is the first report of hVISA in Malaysia.

Published in Infectious Disease Reports

ISSN: 2036-7430 (Print); 2036-7449 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Other systems of medicine
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/idr

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