Effect of routine use of a multiplex PCR for detection of vanA- and vanB- mediated enterococcal resistance on accuracy, costs and earlier reporting

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 215-220

  Petrich, Astrid ^a   Luinstra, Kathy ^a   Page, Bonnie ^a   Callery, Sandra ^a,b   Stevens, Don ^a   Gafni, Amiram ^a   Groves, David ^a   Chernesky, Max ^a   Mahony, James B ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Cost analysis; Multiplex PCR; VRE

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ACCURACY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0035688193     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(01)00305-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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