Triplex real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for simultaneous detection of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci and determination of methicillin resistance directly from positive blood culture bottles

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 349-355

  Kilic, Abdullah ^a   Muldrew, Kenneth L ^b   Tang, Yi Wei ^c   Basustaoglu, A Celal ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

MRCoNS; MRSA; MSCoNS; MSSA; Triplex PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEFOXITIN; METICILLIN; NUC PROTEIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; TUF PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CAPITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CHROMOGENES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS COHNII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EQUORUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HYICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS WARNERI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS XYLOSUS; TRIPLEX REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 77649307316     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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