Rapid detection of the mecA gene in methicillin resistant staphylococci using a colorimetric cycling probe technology

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 83-90

  Bekkaoui, Faouzi ^a   McNevin, John P ^a   Leung, Constant H ^a   Peterson, Glenna J ^a   Patel, Alka ^a   Bhatt, Ram S ^a   Bryan, Robert N ^a  

^a ID Biomedical Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; METICILLIN; RIBONUCLEASE H;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COLORIMETRY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COLORIMETRY; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PENICILLINS; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 0032974562     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00012-7     Document Type: Article

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