Thermo Scientific™ Thermonuclease Agar

Description

• Presumptively identify Staphylococcus aureus with Thermo Scientific™ Remel Thermonuclease Agar (w/toluidine blue)
• Zarzour and Belle reported the usefulness of the thermonuclease test in confirming questionable coagulase-negative S
• aureus isolates 1
• Shanholtzer and Peterson compared the thermonuclease test with the tube coagulase and clumping factor 2 and found that thermonuclease test to be as reliable as the tube coagulase and less time consuming to perform
• Madison and Baselski demonstrated 100% correlation with the subsequent identification of the isolate as S
• aureus by the coagulase test
• Thermonuclease Agar w/ Toluidine Blue is a solid medium recommended for use in qualitative procedures for presumptive identification of S
• aureus
• The nuclease produced by S
• aureus is thermostable, whereas that produced by other orga