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Yesterday a sales rep told me that a recent national meeting, they were informed that by 2008 direct specimen MRSA testing was to be performed on ALL hospital admissions. Does anyone know if this is true and can references be sited? Also, would anterior nares cultures plated directly to chrome agar or oxacillin agar with or without an enrichment broth be sufficient to achive this? One side question i thought we had resolved long ago, but after reading through some of these questions an answers i am not so sure;
If one is using the Vitek I with the expert system, is in mandatory that all staphylococcus aureus isolates be subcultured to oxacillin agar? What about CoNS? Thanks. Leann Lawrence MT
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