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Article: Clindamycin 'D test' called vital in MRSA.(Infectious Diseases)(methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- July 1, 2006
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CHICAGO -- The "D test" is a critical second-step test when methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus cultures come back showing erythromycin resistance and clindamycin susceptibility, according to Dr. Jeffrey Starke.
"It should be automatic--every hospital in the country should know about this test. If you are not running it, you have to start," cautioned Dr. Starke, professor and vice chairman of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, and infection control officer at Texas Children's Hospital, in Houston.
As the number of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections has escalated to epidemic proportions at Texas Children's ...