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7 March 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

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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Malaysia
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Institute for Medical Research, MalaysiaJalan Pahang, Malaysia
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UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute,University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
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Department of Pathology,Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Infect. Dis. Rep.2012, 4(1), e20;https://doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.e20
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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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