Direct detection of vanB2 using the Roche LightCycler vanA/B detection assay to indicate vancomycin-resistant enterococcal carriage - Sensitive but not specific [8]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 809-810

  Young, H L ^a,b   Ballard, S A ^a   Roffey, P ^b   Grayson, M Lindsay ^a,c,d  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anaerobes; Diagnostics; PCR; VRE

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANB2 PROTEIN; VANCOMYCIN; VANB PROTEIN, ENTEROCOCCUS;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RUMINOCOCCUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 34249996566     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkl543     Document Type: Letter

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