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The organism concept class 115329001 | Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus can be interpreted in at least three ways:
- A microbiology laboratory finding associated with an isolate in a patient. "A Staphylococcus aureus was determined to be resistant to Methicillin by laboratory testing".
- Methicillin resistance (e.g. via mecA gene expression) means that the Staphylococcus aureus will be resistant to most of the penicillin class.
- For epidemiological purposes, methicillin resistant organisms are (automatically) classified as multi-drug resistant (and resistant to an assumed list of antimicrobial drug classes).
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