… of MRSA in nasal swabs (14); the Xpert MRSA NxG assay is a new FDA-cleared nucleic acid
amplification test for the detection of MRSA from both rayon nasal swabs … of identification of …

… However, studies have shown that patients with a negative MRSA nasal swab are not likely
to have MRSA as a pulmonary infection source. A recent meta-analysis found the overall …

… with nasal swabs transported in liquid Stuart's medium. We investigated the use of IDI-MRSA
for screening for MRSA in … Identification, isolation, and decolonization of methicillin-resistant …

Background We compared the LightCycler MRSA advanced test (Roche Diagnostics, Germany)
with enrichment culture methods to evaluate the relative diagnostic performance of the …

… Patients had to have a documented MRSA nasal swab and culture of samples from at least
one of the following sites, drawn within 48 h of admission: blood, sputum, wound, BAL, and/or …

… MRSA detection rates for nasal swabs than for axillary and groin … MRSA detection with nasal
swabs can be found in Table 3. The test performances for MRSA detection with nasal swabs …

… of MRSA … with MRSA, we used the growth of MRSA from the nasal swab combined with any
sample giving a positive real-time PCR test in a patient with a prior positive culture for MRSA …

… of MRSA directly from nasal swab specimens (IDI-MRSA; … PCR and direct detection of MRSA
via amplicon hybridization with … The time from culture inoculation to identification of MRSA is …

… Patients with negative MRSA nasal surveillance swabs (referred to as nasal swabs in this …
from other body sites would have led to earlier identification of the MRSA status of these 14 …

… We compared performance of the cobas MRSA/SA Test on the cobas 4800 System to direct
and enriched chromogenic culture using nasal swabs collected from patients at six United …