Detection of methicillin resistance and identification of Staphylococcus spp. from positive blood culture bottles using the mecA and nucA genes with the LightCycler® system;Detección de la resistencia a meticilina e identificación de Staphylococcus spp. en hemocultivos positivos amplificando los genes mecA y nucA con el sistema LightCycler®

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 208-212

  Ruiz Pérez De Pipaón, Maite ^a   Torres Sánchez, María José ^b   Arroyo Pedrero, Luis Antonio ^a   Prados Blanco, Trinidad ^a   Palomares Folía, José Carlos ^b,c   Aznar Martín, Javier ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coagulase negative staphylococci; LightCycler system; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCA GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 17644374711     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13073146     Document Type: Article

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