Clinical Isolates ofStaphylococcus intermediusMasquerading as Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureus
Clinical Isolates ofStaphylococcus intermediusMasquerading as Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureus is a scholarly work by Ferric Fang, published in 2004 in ''Journal of Clinical Microbiology''. The main subjects of the publication include 16S ribosomal RNA, biology, Staphylococcus intermedius, Streptococcus pyogenes, penicillin binding proteins, Staphylococcus, staphylococcal infection, Streptococcus intermedius, virology, microbiology, coagulase, Micrococcaceae, hemolysis, penicillin, Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and antibiotic. The authors report two separate cases ofS. intermediusinfection in which a false-positive rapid penicillin binding protein 2a latex test in conjunction with the phenotypic properties of β-hemolysis and coagulase positivity allowed the clinical isolates to masquerade as methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus. 16S rRNA gene sequencing and the absence ofmecArevealed the strains to be methicillin-susceptibleS. intermedius..