%0 Journal Article %T Screening and detection of heterogenous vancomycin intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in Hospital Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, using the glycopeptide resistance detection etest and population analysis profiling %A Siti Roszilawati Ramli %A Hui-min Neoh %A Muhammad Nazri Aziz %A Salasawati Hussin %J Infectious Disease Reports %D 2012 %I PAGEPress Publications %R 10.4081/idr.2012.e20 %X 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. %K heterogenous vancomycin intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) %K Hospital Kuala Lumpur %U http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/idr/article/view/3836