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Introduction: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has spread throughout the world as a hospital and communityacquired illness. Although a variety of strategies have been employed, laboratory identification of MRSA remains a difficulty. Aim: To examine several phenotypic approaches for accuracy results, with an (Epsilometer) E-test based method serving as the gold standard for MRSA identification. Materials and Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted in the Microbiology department of Santosh Medical College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, from August 2020 to July 2021. Total of 384 isolates S.aureus were identified by using the required samples including pus, swab, blood, wound and urine, etc., which were collected from the Microbiology department and the comparison was done between E-test serving as the gold standard for MRSA identification with Cefoxitin Disk Diffusion (CDD)/ Oxacillin Disk Diffusion method (ODD). The diagnostic kit for using E-Test in collected samples was purchased from Himedia Laboratries Pvt., Ltd., Mumbai, India (EM0065). The data was calculated by using MS-Excel. Results: A total of 113 strains were revealed to be MRSA in clinical specimens out of 384 isolated S.aureus. The gold standard method was chosen to be the E-Test, which had found a high sensitivity of 79.8% and a specificity of 94.2%. Compared to the cefoxitin/oxacillin disc diffusion method, isolates including MRSA were highly susceptible to Tiecoplanin and Linezolid. Conclusion: The present study concludes that E-Test (strip) method is a high sensitivity and highly specific for detecting MRSA in comparison to other disk methods used in this study. Due to less number of sample size and lesser time period more studies are needed to establish this fact.

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Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) metal complexes of a novel Schiff base ligand (SBL) derived from condensation of 2-(4-fluorophenyl)prop-2enaln and ethane-1,2-diamine were synthesized. All the complexes were characterized by elemental analyses, IR, UV-visible spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility and conductance measurements and 1 H NMR. From the elemental analysis data, 1:1 [M]:[ligand] metal chloride complexes are formed having the general composition [M(SBL)Cl2] and [Cu(SBL)] Cl2, [where M = Co(II), Ni(II) and SBL= {bis-2-(4fluorophenyl)prop-2-enaln}ethane-1,2-diamine]. The result showed that the ligand is coordinated to the metal ions in a neutral tetradentate manner with ON donor sites and the nature of metal-ligand bonding can range from covalent to ionic. Antimicrobial activities of the newly synthesized chemical compounds were evaluated against Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 25923), Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 3160), Cabdida albicans (ATCC 227) and Staphylococcus cereviscae (ATCC 361) species and found that metal complexes exhibited more antimicrobial properties so they are more potential and significant than the ligand. This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License. This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit the author for the original creation. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Cu Cl Cl M = Co or Ni Cl 2 EtOH Refluxed M 2+ Cu 2+ Scheme-II: Route of synthesis of metal complexes 2358 Singh et al. Asian J. Chem.