Abstract
A commercial latex agglutination slide test (SeroSTAT Staph, Scott Laboratories, Inc., Fiskeville, R.I.) accurately identified Staphylococcus aureus when applied directly to blood culture fluid containing staphylococci. This latex agglutination test exhibited 100% accuracy when 30 seeded aerobic and anaerobic radiometric blood cultures (15 strains of S. aureus, 15 strains of other staphylococcal species) were tested blindly. In 36 actual clinical specimens yielding 16 isolates of S. aureus and 20 isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis, 94.4% accuracy was achieved. The latex agglutination test provided positive test results before objective criteria of blood culture positivity such as radiometric growth indices and Gram stains became positive.
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