One-year experience with modified BD GeneOhm™ MRSA assay for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from pooled nasal, skin, and throat samples

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 132-139

  Svent Kucina, Natasa ^a   Pirs, Mateja ^a   Mueller Premru, Manica ^a   Cvitkovic Spik, Vesna ^a   Kofol, Romina ^a   Seme, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

GeneOhm MRSA assay; IDI MRSA; MRSA; Pooling; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DEVICE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN CULTURE; THROAT CULTURE;

AXILLA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; GROIN; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NASAL MUCOSA; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 58149483506     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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