Screening patients for methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage at
hospital admission is widely accepted as an essential part of MRSA control programmes. It …

ABSTRACT PCR tests for the rapid and valid detection of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are now available. We evaluated the costs associated with …

Clin Microbiol Infect 2010; 16: 1754–1761 Abstract Pre‐emptive isolation of suspected
methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers is considered essential for …

Methicillin aztreonam mannitol salt agar is a sensitive and reliable solid screening medium
for detecting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). With this medium an …

Strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are a major cause of
nosocomial infection. This has led to the widespread introduction of screening techniques to …

We describe a model to examine the cost-effectiveness of various laboratory-screening
approaches to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). A critical …

A total of 1204 meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screens (3340 individual
swabs) were tested to evaluate a staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCC mec) real …

There are few more compelling questions in clinical microbiology today than the issue of
whether or not to screen for the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus …

Summary The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NuTH) implemented
a seek and destroy (S&D) programme in 2006 to minimise meticillin-resistant …

ABSTRACT A rapid procedure was developed for detection and identification of methicillin-
resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) directly from sterile sites or mixed flora samples …