Clinical impact of a real-time PCR assay for rapid identification of Staphylococcus aureus and determination of methicillin resistance from positive blood cultures

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 425-431

  Cattoir, V ^a   Merabet, L ^a   Djibo, N ^a   Rioux, C ^b   Legrand, P ^a   Girou, E ^b   Lesprit, P ^b  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Bloodstream infection; Clinical benefit; PCR detection; Staphylococci

Indexed keywords

OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79751507480     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03233.x     Document Type: Article

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