[PDF] Top 20 Evaluation of the LightCycler Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Advanced Test for Detection of MRSA Nasal Colonization

... S. aureus-specific ...of nasal swab specimens and an unacceptable PPV of about 40% was obtained with simultaneous detection of femA and mecA ...true-positive MRSA cases (15, ...of MRSA ... See full document

... the LightCycler MRSA advanced test and directly plated culture and/or the BD GeneOhm ...the LightCycler MRSA advanced test; (ii) broth-enriched sam- ples were ... See full document

... for nasal colonization by MRSA during two separate prospective, multisite investigational ...for MRSA nasal colonization, such as patients who were previously isolated due to ... See full document

... of MRSA identification), local infection control standards and the local prevalence of ...the detection of transient, short-term MRSA carriage that may occur dur- ing a work shift ...low MRSA ... See full document

... of MRSA and MSSA isolates makes difficult to interpret routine antibiotic susceptibility testing of ...of MRSA isolates is of alarming ...for MRSA elimination in hospitals in the ... See full document

... high colonization rates, ...lower colonization rates, below the detection limit of culture, of other body sites (29, ...Xpert MRSA (Table 2, patient 4), we found no possible explanation: ... See full document

... S. aureus isolates from the ...low-level MRSA index ...1 MRSA and five were class 2 ...S. aureus isolates with different resistance ...clinical MRSA and MSSA isolates with different ... See full document

... Background: Colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) poses a hygiene risk that does not spare field hospitals or military medical field camps during ... See full document

... GeneOhm MRSA) is a multi- plex qualitative real-time PCR assay and is an FDA-approved assay for the direct detection of nasal colonization by ...direct detection from nasal swabs ... See full document

... the MRSA isolates recovered from sites of infec- tion, 22/24 were USA300; one was USA300/700 (from patient with CSOM) and the other was not available for ...with MRSA, similar pulsovars were found between ... See full document

... Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) contin- ues to be a leading and important health care-associated (HC-A) pathogen, and its prevalence has reached epidemic proportions ... See full document

... S. aureus endocarditis (of whom 38% were HIV-positive drug abusers) from one center over a 22-year period found that HIV-negative patients with ...S. aureus IE were more likely to have dyspnea, cutaneous ... See full document

... coagulase test is usually confirmatory for S. aureus [6] [7] ...S. aureus , their performance varies from setting to setting resulting in variable reliability and reproducibility [4] ...genus ... See full document

... G, Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was first detected approximately 40 years ago and is still among the top three clinically important pathogens (Stewart et al, ...strains resistant to the ... See full document

... The isolates analyzed could be assigned to nine clonal com- plexes based on the similarity between sequence types in six of seven loci. CC5 (n ⫽ 7), CC45 (n ⫽ 14), and CC80 (n ⫽ 12) were the predominant clonal complexes ... See full document

... 4 MRSA stains immobilized the beads at a slower rate (Figure ...the MRSA strains, the 007/FV strain did not produce any significant biofilm after 4 ... See full document

... of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Korean ...of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus au- reus spread by neonates transferred from primary ... See full document

... low MRSA endemicity, a negative PCR result is a reliable predictor of true MRSA status and future risk, but a positive result is ...confirmed MRSA carriers, delaying essential procedures while ... See full document

... S. aureus were 13 mm as susceptible, 11-12 mm as intermediate, and 10 mm as ...S. aureus using cefoxcitin disk were ≥ 20 mm as susceptible and ≤ 19 mm as resistant ...Approximation test was ... See full document

... higher MRSA colonization prevalence than the general popula- tion ...S. aureus and human populations in semi-isolated com- munities; more frequent contact between the same people increases the ... See full document