… patients who are screened with molecular methods and those who are screened with culture
… Currently, the nares are the only approved source of samples for MRSA screening among …

… Active surveillance for patients colonized with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(… aureus nasal carriage varies according to the quality of sampling, culture techniques, and …

… We evaluated the MRSASelect medium by comparing it with our routine screening method
on clinical samples. In the period January to March 2005 samples from known MRSA patients …

… (if the first MRSA isolate was from a screening sample [ie, carrier]) or as clinically
detected (if no positive screening sample preceded a positive clinical diagnostic sample). …

… screening, because such specimens often contain a mixed flora of coagulase-negative …
The swab was inserted into the transport medium immediately after the sample was obtained. All …

… of Staphylococcus aureus strains and screening samples … h on the methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) … Sixty-eight of 1,002 screening specimens yielded MRSA on …

… Swabs from screening sites and wound samples (a total of 232 samples) were tested by …
samples (9.8%). MRSA was detected by both methods in 10 sites ( table 1 ). In 13 samples that …

… Companion animal staphylococcal isolate antibiograms were screened retrospectively to …
by Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus intermedius, and Staphylococcus schleiferi. Rates …

… However, screening nonrisk patients increased the number of screening samples by 62%
with a proportionate increase in the costs of screening. A backward stepwise logistic …

… t This study found that nasal screening performed better than throat, axillary, or perineal
screening but … A minimum sample size of 7,680 admission episodes was required to ensure 95% …