Quantification by real-time PCR assay of Staphylococcus aureus load: A useful tool for rapidly identifying persistent nasal carriers

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2063-2065

  Verhoeven, Paul O ^a,b   Grattard, Florence ^a,b   Carricajo, Anne ^a,b   Lucht, Frédéric ^a,b   Cazorla, Céline ^b   Garraud, Olivier ^a   Pozzetto, Bruno ^a,b   Berthelot, Philippe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPA GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL LOAD; CARRIER STATE; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84862078283     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00157-12     Document Type: Article

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