Rapid Phenotypic Detection of Microbial Resistance in Gram-Positive Bacteria by a Real-Time Laser Scattering Method†

We developed a methodology for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) based on the BacterioScanTM216R laser scattering technology, using methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin resistance in enterococci as exemplar for important resistance phenotypes. Fifty methicillin-res...

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Main Authors: Evgeny A. Idelevich, Matthias Hoy, Dennis Görlich, Dennis Knaack, Barbara Grünastel, Georg Peters, Matthias Borowski, Karsten Becker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01064/full