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Rapid identification of Staphylococcus aureus in blood cultures by thermonuclease testing.

Journal of clinical microbiology ·Vol. 18 ·No. 3 ·1983-09-00 ·Pages 722-4

Madison BM, Baselski VS

Abstract

The detection of thermonuclease activity in 86 blood culture samples containing gram-positive cocci showed 100% correlation with the subsequent identification of the isolate as Staphylococcus aureus by the coagulase test. No positive thermonuclease results were found with 66 samples containing coagulase-negative staphylococci and 56 samples containing other gram-positive organisms. The thermonuclease test provides a rapid, reliable method to identify S. aureus in blood cultures.

MeSH Terms
Blood/microbiology Humans Micrococcal Nuclease/analysis Staphylococcus aureus/enzymology,isolation & purification Time Factors
Chemicals
Micrococcal Nuclease
Authors & Affiliations
2 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Madison B M
Baselski V S
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of clinical microbiology
Abbr.
J Clin Microbiol
ISSN
0095-1137
DOI
10.1128/jcm.18.3.722-724.1983
Published
1983-09-00
Pages
722-4
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
7505564
PMCID
PMC270883
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/jcm.18.3.722-724.1983 PMC Full Text View journal details
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