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. 1986 Mar;23(3):640–642. doi: 10.1128/jcm.23.3.640-642.1986

Comparison of a yellow latex reagent with other agglutination methods for the identification of Staphylococcus aureus.

W J Brown
PMCID: PMC268714  PMID: 3958152

Abstract

A new commercial yellow latex agglutination reagent (Bacto-Staph) was compared with the slide and tube coagulase tests and three other commercial reagents for the identification of 283 Staphylococcus aureus and 54 non-S. aureus staphylococcal strains. Test sensitivities for the identification of S. aureus were as follows: tube coagulase, 99.6%; slide coagulase, 98.6%; Bacto-Staph, 99.6%; Staphylatex, 98.6%; Sero STAT Staph, 98.2%; and Staphyloslide, 97.5%. No false-positive reactions were observed with any of the commercial reagents.

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