Hospitals strive to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) prevalence
via active surveillance of inpatient populations. Rapid and inexpensive screening methods …

The sensitivity of screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can be
improved by adding other specimen sites to nares. We describe an evaluation of a new …

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an increasing problem. Rapid
detection of MRSA-colonized patients has the potential to limit spread of the organism. We …

Rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by PCR can be
performed directly from nasal specimens with the IDI-MRSA assay. To improve the efficiency …

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of hospital-acquired
and life-threatening infections. Active surveillance programs for MRSA utilize either …

To evaluate methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) detection methods, we compared (a)
mannitol salt agar with cefoxitin (MSA-FX),(b) MRSASelect agar (Bio-Rad),(c) MRSA ID …

Active surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is among the
strategies recommended by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America for control …

ABSTRACT Spectra MRSA agar (Remel, Lenexa, KS), a novel chromogenic medium
originally developed to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from …

We describe here the development and evaluation of MRSA ID, a new chromogenic agar
medium for the specific isolation and identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus …

Background We evaluated the performance of three chromogenic media (Brilliance agar I
[Oxoid, UK], Brilliance agar II [Oxoid], and ChromID MRSA [Biomérieux, France]) combined …