High proportion of wrongly identified methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriers by use of a rapid commercial PCR assay due to presence of staphylococcal cassette chromosome element lacking the mecA gene.
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
High proportion of wrongly identified methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriers by use of a rapid commercial PCR assay due to presence of staphylococcal cassette chromosome element lacking the mecA gene.
Journal
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
ISSN
1098-660X[electronic], 0095-1137[linking]
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2011
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
49
Number
2
Pages
722-724
Language
english
Abstract
During a 9-month period, 217 patients were newly diagnosed as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers by using a commercial rapid PCR-based test (GeneXpert). However, no MRSA was recovered by culturing the second swab in 61 of these patients. Further analyses showed that 28 (12.9%) of the patients harbored S. aureus isolates with a staphylococcal cassette chromosome element lacking the mecA gene and were thus incorrectly determined to be MRSA carriers.
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Web of science
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Yes
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30/12/2010 16:12
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20/08/2019 14:08
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