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J Clin Microbiol. 1983 March; 17(3): 558-560
Copyright © 1983, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Rapid Determination of Novobiocin Resistance of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci with the MS-2 System

¹ Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78284
² Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78284

ABSTRACT

Special novobiocin elution disks were prepared for testing of coagulase-negative staphylococci in the MS-2 system (Abbott Laboratories, Diagnostics Div., Irving, Tex.). The MS-2 system correctly classified 91.5% of 82 isolates as either susceptible or resistant to novobiocin in an average time of 5.8 h.