The screening of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in vascular surgery patients: A comparison of molecular testing and broth-enriched culture

Chemotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 330-336

  Fiolic, Zlatko ^a   Bosnjak, Zrinka ^a   Snajdar, Irena ^a   Crkvenac Gregorek, Andrea ^a   Kalenic, Smilja ^b   Budimir, Ana ^a,b  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Culture; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Polymerase chain reaction; Screening; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGAR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PERINEAL SWAB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; SURGICAL PATIENT; THROAT CULTURE; TREATMENT DURATION; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; PERINEUM; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84868604081     PISSN: 00093157     EISSN: 14219794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000343454     Document Type: Article

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