Feb 2, 2009 - they undercalled resistance); the MicroScan and Phoenix systems and Etest tended to ..... Department of Health and Human Services.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, July 2009, p. 2013–2017 0095-1137/09/$08.00⫹0 doi:10.1128/JCM.00221-09
Vol. 47, No. 7
Accuracy of Commercial and Reference Susceptibility Testing Methods for Detecting Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus䌤 Jana M. Swenson,* Karen F. Anderson, David R. Lonsway, Angela Thompson, Sigrid K. McAllister, Brandi M. Limbago, Roberta B. Carey, Fred C. Tenover,† and Jean B. Patel Clinical and Environmental Microbiology Branch, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333 Received 2 February 2009/Returned for modification 12 March 2009/Accepted 29 April 2009
We compared the results obtained with six commercial MIC test systems (Etest, MicroScan, Phoenix, Sensititre, Vitek Legacy, and Vitek 2 systems) and three reference methods (agar dilution, disk diffusion, and vancomycin [VA] agar screen [VScr]) with the results obtained by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute broth microdilution (BMD) reference method for the detection of VA-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA). A total of 129 S. aureus isolates (VA MICs by previous BMD tests,
