Use of real-time polymerase chain reaction for identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus directly from positive blood culture bottles

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 199-202

  Stratidis, John ^a,b   Bia, Frank J ^a,b   Edberg, Stephen C ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood culture; MRSA; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DEVICE; ENTEROCOCCUS; EVALUATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; ORFX GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTEREMIA; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34249899440     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.12.017     Document Type: Article

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