title: Comparison of ampicillin/sulbactam and amoxicillin/clavulanic acid for detection of borderline oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
abstract: Borderline oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (BORSA) may be misidentified as intrinsically methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the clinical laboratory. Under disk diffusion testing conditions designed to maximize detection of MRSA (incubation at 32 degrees C, pre-induction with methicillin, or plating on 4% NaCl-supplemented agar), BORSA strains also tend to appear resistant to semisynthetic penicillins. Under these conditions, ampicillin/sulbactam appears to be more accurate than amoxicillin/clavulanic acid for differentiating BORSA from MRSA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D000658:Amoxicillin / Q000494:pharmacology; D000667:Ampicillin / Q000494:pharmacology; D019818:Clavulanic Acid; D002969:Clavulanic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination / Q000494:pharmacology; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests / Q000379:methods*; D010068:Oxacillin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013407:Sulbactam / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D002969:Clavulanic Acids; D019818:Clavulanic Acid; C035444:sultamicillin; D000667:Ampicillin; D000658:Amoxicillin; D013407:Sulbactam; D010068:Oxacillin