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February 27, 2018
Case Study: Direct Detection of MRSA/MSSA From Positive Blood Cultures

This article was written by April Abbott, Deaconess Health System, USA, and Jennifer Dien Bard, Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, USA, and was originally published in the AST News Update: Volume 3, Issue 1 Winter 2018.
This case study focuses on the direct detection of MRSA/MSSA from positive blood cultures from a case on a 14-year-old female who was brought to the Emergency Department with vomiting and fever.