Diagnostic Tests for Staphylococcal infection

Home Diagnostic Testing

These home medical tests may be relevant to Staphylococcal infection:

• Cold & Flu: Home Testing:
  • Home Fever Tests
  • Home Ear Infection Test Kits
  • Home Flu Tests
  • Home Strep A Tests

Staphylococcal infection Diagnosis: Book Excerpts

• Diagnosis - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection
• Diagnosis - Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
• Diagnosis - Vancomycin intermediately resistant Staphylococcus aureus
• Diagnosis - Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome

Tests and diagnosis discussion for Staphylococcal infection:

FDA Bad Bug Book (Excerpt)

Diagnosis of Human Illness: In the diagnosis of staphylococcal foodborne illness, proper interviews with the victims and gathering and analyzing epidemiologic data are essential. Incriminated foods should be collected and examined for staphylococci. The presence of relatively large numbers of enterotoxigenic staphylococci is good circumstantial evidence that the food contains toxin. The most conclusive test is the linking of an illness with a specific food or in cases where multiple vehicles exist, the detection of the toxin in the food sample(s). In cases where the food may have been treated to kill the staphylococci, as in pasteurization or heating, direct microscopic observation of the food may be an aid in the diagnosis. A number of serological methods for determining the enterotoxigenicity of S. aureus isolated from foods as well as methods for the separation and detection of toxins in foods have been developed and used successfully to aid in the diagnosis of the illness. Phage typing may also be useful when viable staphylococci can be isolated from the incriminated food, from victims, and from suspected carrier such as food handlers. (Source: FDA Bad Bug Book)

FDA Bad Bug Book (Excerpt)

Analysis of Foods: For detecting trace amounts of staphylococcal enterotoxin in foods incriminated in food poisoning, the toxin must be separated from food constituents and concentrated before identification by specific precipitation with antiserum (antienterotoxin) as follows. Two principles are used for the purpose: (1) the selective adsorption of the enterotoxin from an extract of the food onto ion exchange resins and (2) the use of physical and chemical procedures for the selective removal of food constituents from the extract, leaving the enterotoxin(s) in solution. The use of these techniques and concentration of the resulting products (as much as possible) has made it possible to detect small amounts of enterotoxin in food. (Source: FDA Bad Bug Book)

Diagnosis of Staphylococcal infection: medical news summaries:

The following medical news items are relevant to diagnosis of Staphylococcal infection:

• Multi-resistant bacteria found in hospital patients
• More news »

 » Next page: Diagnosis of Staphylococcal infection

Rate This Website

What do you think about the features of this website? Take our user survey and have your say:

Website User Survey

Medical Tools & Articles:

Next articles:

• Diagnosis of Staphylococcal infection
• Signs of Staphylococcal infection
• Complications of Staphylococcal infection
• Misdiagnosis of Staphylococcal infection
• Undiagnosed Staphylococcal infection

Tools & Services:

• Bookmark this page
• Take a survey relating to Staphylococcal infection
• Symptom Search
• Symptom Checker
• Medical Dictionary
• Give your feedback

Medical Articles:

• Disease & Treatments Search
• Misdiagnosis Center
• Full list of interesting articles

Forums & Message Boards

• Ask or answer a question at the Boards:
• I cannot get a diagnosis. Please help.
• Tell us your medical story.
• Share your misdiagnosis story.
• What is the best treatment for my condition?
• See all the Boards.

Enter your search terms Submit search form
Search The Web Search wrongdiagnosis.com

Common Health Mistakes

Symptom
Checker

Search Specialists by State and City