… whom MRSA is suspected. For this retrospective study, we describe the diagnostic
characteristics of the nasal swab MRSA PCR test in predicting culture-confirmed MRSA pneumonia. …

… Through nasal surveillance testing, colonization with MRSA can be established on admission
to the emergency department, hospital, or ICU. Previously, MRSA nasal swabs have been …

… The negative predictive values (NPVs) for rayon swabs and ESwab specimens were … MRSA
NxG assay is a sensitive and specific assay for the direct detection of MRSA from nasal swab …

… MRSA assay, and 1,247 tested with the Xpert MRSA assay) were enrolled for this study.
Results obtained on nasal swabs from eligible samples tested for MRSA using the LightCycler …

… MRSA advanced test to that of the BD GeneOhm MRSA test … Double-headed swabs were
used to collect anterior nasal … swab of the pair was plated directly to CHROMagar MRSA. …

… Using a novel, close to real-life conditions approach for swab testing, this study outlines
the huge impact of the swab-type on the laboratory results. In fact, the choice of the …

… diagnostic test for the rapid detection of MRSA directly from nasal swab … IDI-MRSA assay
is a sensitive and specific test for the detection of MRSA nasal colonization directly from a swab …

… SA and MRSA directly from nasal swabs. The assay studied in this report became only
the third such test… Our hypothesis was that the development of the cobas MRSA/SA test (Roche …

… LightCycler MRSA advanced test … nasal surveillance of MRSA in medical and surgical
patients from the intensive care unit, we aimed to compare the LightCycler MRSA advanced test …

… -MRSA and BD-MRSA assays against each other and against culture for the detection of
MRSA in CNG swabs. … that the GXP-MRSA assay of CNG swabs has sensitivity and specificity …