Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pose an important problem in hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care settings. Serious infections due to these organisms currently necessitate use of non- -lactam antibacterial therapy. For this reason, accurate detection of methicillin or oxacillin resistance among staphylococci is of great importance, consequently several techniques have been applied to this task, including agar plate screening, and disk diffusion tests. There are many lab methods for detection of methicillin resistance in S.aureus. The gold standard, for...