[Protein-A-hemagglutination test, a reliable method for rapid identification of S. aureus (author's transl)].
369 staphylococcal strains isolated from clinical material were examined for tubeagglutination with sensitized sheep red cells in a standardized assay to study its reliability for routine identification of S. aureus. Colonies isolated from blood agar plates correlated in 99.5% with the (optimized) coagulase reaction. The test is easily to perform and results can be read after 2 hours, whereas the reference methods coagulase, hyaluronidase and deoxyribonuclease took as much as 24 h. The reliability of these tests is discussed.
D006386:Hemagglutination Tests; D006801:Humans; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D013205:Staphylococcal Protein A / Q000032:analysis*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000145:classification*
D013205:Staphylococcal Protein A
Protein-A-Hämagglutinationstest, eine zurverlässige Methode zur schnellen Identifizierung von S. aureus.