Detection of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Determination of Minimum Inhibitory Concentration of Vancomycin for Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Pus/Wound Swab Samples of the Patients Attending a Tertiary Care Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal

Table 1

Comparison of the phenotypic and genotypic methods for detection of MRSA.

	Different methods used for detection of MRSA
	Cefoxitin disc diffusion	Oxacillin broth microdilution	Polymerase chain reaction
Methods to identify MRSA strains	Strains of S. aureus having zone of inhibition of  ≤21 mm to cefoxitin disc (30 μg)	Strains of S. aureus having oxacillin MIC of ≥4 μg/mL	Strains of S. aureus harboring mecA gene