Use of a Novel Selective Medium to Detect Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Colonized Patients of an Intensive Care Unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 130-132

  Dias, Cícero Gomes ^a   Röpke, Marcos Vinicius Rosa ^a   Superti, Silvana ^b   Berquó, Laura ^a   D'Azevedo, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE CIÊNCIAS DA SAÚDE DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL MÃE DE DEUS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; COAGULASE; MANNITOL; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNIQUE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER STATE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 1342268783     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502363     Document Type: Article

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