Letter/Communication
Commentary: Identification of Low-Level Vancomycin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus in the Era of Informatics
Journal of clinical microbiology, Vol.54(4), pp.836-839
04/2016
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00071-16
PMCID: PMC4809930
PMID: 26865694
Abstract
Vancomycin-intermediateStaphylococcus aureus(VISA) and heteroresistant VISA (hVISA) are pathogens for which accurate antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) would rule out standard treatment with vancomycin. Unfortunately, AST for vancomycin is relatively slow and standard methods are unable to reliably detect VISA and hVISA. An article in this issue (C. A. Mather, B. J. Werth, S. Sivagnanam, D. J. SenGupta, and S. M. Butler-Wu, J Clin Microbiol 54:883-890, 2016, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02428-15) describes a rapid whole-cell matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight proxy susceptibility method that highlights current innovations and challenges with rapid AST, VISA/hVISA identification, and clinical bioinformatics.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Commentary: Identification of Low-Level Vancomycin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus in the Era of Informatics
- Creators
- Bradley A Ford - Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA bradley-ford-1@uiowa.edu
- Resource Type
- Letter/Communication
- Publication Details
- Journal of clinical microbiology, Vol.54(4), pp.836-839
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1128/JCM.00071-16
- PMID
- 26865694
- PMCID
- PMC4809930
- ISSN
- 0095-1137
- eISSN
- 1098-660X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2016
- Academic Unit
- Pathology
- Record Identifier
- 9984046916702771
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