Multiplex real-time PCR assay for detection of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and associated toxin genes

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3071-3073

  Fosheim, G E ^a   Nicholson, A C ^a   Albrecht, V S ^a   Limbago, B M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; LUKS PV GENE; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS KLOOSII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCHLEIFERI; TST GENE;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; EXOTOXINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUPERANTIGENS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79960962471     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00795-11     Document Type: Article

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