High proportion of wrongly identified methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriers by use of a rapid commercial PCR assay due to presence of staphylococcal cassette chromosome element lacking the mecA gene

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 722-724

  Blanc, Dominique S ^a   Basset, Patrick ^a   Nahimana Tessemo, Immaculée ^a   Jaton, Katia ^a   Greub, Gilbert ^a   Zanetti, Giorgio ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79951474548     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01988-10     Document Type: Article

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