From: A multi-center blinded study on the efficiency of phenotypic screening methods to detect glycopeptide intermediately susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (GISA) and heterogeneous GISA (h-GISA)
correctly identified (%)
BHI-van
MH-van
MH-teico
Etest
Overall Sensitivity
44.4
25.3
90.3
99.0
Overall Specificity
68.4
58.7
92.1
93.3
h-GISA
Sensitivity
4.5
1.0
85.0
98.5
GISA
85.9
50.5
95.8
99.5