%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 Hui-min Neoh
%A Muhammad Nazri Aziz
%A Salasawati Hussin
%A Siti Roszilawati Ramli
%J -
%D 2012
%R https://doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.3836
%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 https://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/idr/article/view/idr.2012.e20