Slide agglutination assay for the qualitative detection of coagulase (both clumping factor and protein A) to identify Staphylococcus aureus to the exclusion of other species of staphylococci
For use on pure culture samples suspected of being S. aureus; can be used on live cultures from 5% sheep blood agar plates
Detects methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains that produce clumping factor and protein A
Designed for 45-second, simple-to-interpret slide test results; all testing materials needed to perform the test are included in each kit, including color-coded controls with dropper-tip vials
100% correlation with tube coagulase test; shown to correlate 91% in one study and 100% in another study with the tube coagulase test
