Development and Comparative Evaluation of Different Screening Methods for Detection of Staphylococcus aureus

E Delibato, M Bancone, G Volpe, D De Medici… - Analytical …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… In this paper, results from a comparison of various optimized screening methods for detection
of Staphylococcus aureus with ELISA‐based formats, using alkaline phosphatase as the …

Comparison of screening methods to identify methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus

G Kampf, K Weist, S Swidsinski, M Kegel… - European Journal of …, 1997 - Springer
… Therefore, the aim of the study was to compare the sensitivity of four commercially
available agglutination tests as well as screening methods and culture media for detection of …

Methods for screening for methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage

GL French - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… Impact of rapid screening tests on acquisition of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus:
… kit, for rapid detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol …

Detection of vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A comparative study of three different phenotypic screening methods

P Bhateja, T Mathur, M Pandya, T Fatma… - Indian journal of medical …, 2005 - Elsevier
screening methodologies, to detect Staphylococcus aureus strains with decreased susceptibility
to vancomycin. Three methods were used to screen 160 Staphylococcus aureusmethod

… of Culture Screening Methods for Detection of Nasal Carriage of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a Prospective Study Comparing 32 Methods

N Safdar, L Narans, B Gordon… - Journal of clinical …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
… We report a prospective study of 32 different microbiologic techniques for detection of … and
accurate detection of MRSA in surveillance specimens, but we believe that these techniques

Evaluation of different detection methods of biofilm formation in Staphylococcus aureus

JKM Knobloch, MA Horstkotte, H Rohde… - Medical microbiology and …, 2002 - Springer
aureus are unknown at present. In this study we therefore evaluated the reliability of the
indicated three methods for detection of biofilm formation in S. aureus and optimized the TCP …

Evaluation of Three Rapid Methods for Detection of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

L Louie, SO Matsumura, E Choi, M Louie… - Journal of clinical …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
… these two new tests for the detection of methicillin resistance in S. aureus. The assays were
… the accuracy of two new rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of methicillin resistance in S. …

Rapid screening tests for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at hospital admission: systematic review and meta-analysis

E Tacconelli, G De Angelis, C De Waure… - The Lancet infectious …, 2009 - thelancet.com
… Compared with culture screening, use of rapid screening tests … rapid screening tests and
those not applying screening, we … screening for MRSA is more important than the type of test

Evaluation of Different Methods To Detect Methicillin Resistance in Small-Colony Variants of Staphylococcus aureus

F Kipp, K Becker, G Peters… - Journal of Clinical …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
… (SCVs) of Staphylococcus aureus, 11 different methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) clones
… The slow growth of SCVs often makes testing by disk diffusion or by automated methods

Methods for identifying methicillin resistancein Staphylococcus aureus

RW Smyth, G Kahlmeter, BO Liljequist… - Journal of Hospital …, 2001 - Elsevier
… of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus were used to examine a … detection of methicillin
resistance in Staphylococcus aureus isolates by the MRSA-screen latex agglutination test