TABLE 1.
Comparison of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (SXT) antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Staphylococcus aureus using the BD Phoenix automated microbiology system and disk diffusion (n = 642)a
| Method and susceptibility | Phoenix |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Susceptible | Resistant | ||
| Disk diffusion | |||
| Susceptible | 586 | 50 | 636 |
| Intermediate | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Resistant | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Total | 586 | 56 | 642 |
Number of isolates.