Screening for<unk>  can be accomplished in a number of ways. For inoculating peri-rectal/anal swabs or stool specimens directly, one method uses bile esculin azide agar plates containing 6 μg/ml of<unk> . Black colonies should be identified as an<unk>  to species level and further confirmed as<unk>  resistant by an MIC method before reporting as<unk> .<unk>  resistance can be determined for enterococcal colonies available in pure culture by inoculating a suspension of the organism onto a commercially available brain heart infusion agar (BHIA) plate containing 6 μg/ml<unk> . The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) recommends performing a<unk>  MIC test and also motility and pigment production tests to distinguish species with acquired resistance (vanA and vanB) from those with vanC intrinsic resistance. Detection of<unk>  resistance by the use of PCR targeting vanA and vanB can also be performed.
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus
Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae
Shigatoxigenic and verotoxigenic Escherichia coli
Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli
Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli