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

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

Abstract

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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.

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