Use of triplex PCR, for rapid, PVL, MRSA, from methicillin-resistant coagulase negative staphylococci

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 215-218

  Abimanyu, Nagarajan ^a   Krishnan, Arunkumar ^b   Murugesan, Saravanan ^a   Kaushik Subramanian, G ^a   Gurumurthy, Sivakumar ^b   Krishnan, Padma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^b MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

FemA; MecA; MRCoNS; PVL MRSA; Triplex PCR

Indexed keywords

COAGULASE; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEM A GENE; GENE TARGETING; LUK PV GENE; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PVL GENE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TRIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84873653756     PISSN: 2249782X     EISSN: 0973709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2013/4523.2731     Document Type: Article

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