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Twenty-four clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus collected from various geographic areas and four reference strains were studied by (i) agar diffusion with disks impregnated with 5 μg oxacillin and reading after incubation at 30°C for 24 hours, (ii) Southern hybridization with a probe specific for the mecA gene, and (iii) the BBL Crystal TM MRSA ID system. There was perfect correlation...