Detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by a duplex droplet digital PCR assay

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2033-2039

  Kelley, KaShonda ^a   Cosman, Angela ^a   Belgrader, Phillip ^b   Chapman, Brenda ^a   Sullivan, Donna C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BIO RAD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DUPLEX DROPLET DIGITAL POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SA GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TEACHING HOSPITAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NOSE MUCOSA; PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NASAL MUCOSA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84879429277     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00196-13     Document Type: Article

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