International Journal of Microbiology
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 636502, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/636502
Research Article

Shortened Time to Identify Staphylococcus Species from Blood Cultures and Methicillin Resistance Testing Using CHROMAgar

Shingo Chihara,1 Mary K. Hayden,2 Eileen Minogue-Corbett,3 and Kamaljit Singh2

1Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, 1653 W. Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
2Department of Pathology and Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, 1653 W. Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
3Department of Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, 1653 W. Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60612, USA

Received 9 August 2008; Accepted 6 November 2008

Academic Editor: Michael M. Tunney

Copyright © 2009 Shingo Chihara et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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