title: Chromogenic media for MRSA diagnostics.
abstract: For the past decade, a number of chromogenic media for methicillin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) detection have been developed and applied, including Oxoid Brilliance™ MRSA, CHROMagar™ MRSA, BBL™ CHROMagar™ MRSA, MRSASelect and chromID MRSA. The advantages of these chromogenic media offers direct detection of visible staphylococcal colonies, coupled with the use of chromogenic enzymatic substrates that can be hydrolyzed by S. aureus to confirm species or strain identification. BBL™ CHROMagar™ MRSA and MRSASelect are designed for detection of nasal colonization by MRSA, while CHROMagar™ MRSA, Oxoid Brilliance™ MRSA and chromID MRSA are readily applied in bacterial screening. This review summarizes the characteristics, principles and capacities of these selective media, and focuses on comparison of different chromogenic media.
authors: College of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Road, Guangzhou, 510640, China. zhenbo.xu@hotmail.com.|Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, School of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA. zhenbo.xu@hotmail.com.|Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Green Processing of Natural Products and Product Safety, Guangzhou, 510640, China. zhenbo.xu@hotmail.com.
authors: Zhenbo
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2865-2441
authors: Z
authors: Xu
authors: College of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Road, Guangzhou, 510640, China.
authors: Yuchao
authors: Y
authors: Hou
authors: Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, 38163, USA.
authors: Brian M
authors: BM
authors: Peters
authors: Department of Laboratory Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510120, China. jyksys@126.com.
authors: Dingqiang
authors: D
authors: Chen
authors: College of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Road, Guangzhou, 510640, China.|Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Green Processing of Natural Products and Product Safety, Guangzhou, 510640, China.
authors: Bing
authors: B
authors: Li
authors: College of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Road, Guangzhou, 510640, China.|Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Green Processing of Natural Products and Product Safety, Guangzhou, 510640, China.
authors: Lin
authors: L
authors: Li
authors: Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, School of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.|Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
authors: Mark E
authors: ME
authors: Shirtliff
mesh_terms: D002863:Chromogenic Compounds / Q000378:metabolism; D003470:Culture Media / Q000737:chemistry*; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D055624:Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D002863:Chromogenic Compounds; D003470:Culture Media
keywords: Chromogenic media; Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Sensitivity; Specificity