… screening. To assess susceptibility to antimicrobials and to perform the molecular typing of
Staphylococcus aureus … The sample of patients analyzed in this study included infants or …

… samples than both PCR methods, leading to the conclusion that the combination of PCR with
cultural screening is … of methicillin-sensitive S.aureus (here in 34.63% of the samples), an …

… Further analysis of the patient screening samples plated … /swab) that also screened patients
with known MRSA carriage (8… sequence type 228-staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec I…

… used as a screening tool. A recent paper9 applied PCR to screening swabs using primers
… There were three samples which returned a positive PCR result but were negative by MSAO…

… Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization in emergency admissions during a one-year
MRSA screening … emergency admissions by 6469 patients were screened for MRSA. Of those …

… In this active-surveillance convenience sample, the use of … screening, with performance
similar to that of Xpert MRSA PCR. The spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (…

… -analysis were surveillance for screening of nasal carriers of S. aureus, prophylactic treatment/…
nasal carrier identification differed in frequency, location, and quantity of samples among …

… to provide the most efficient and useful clinical samples for MRSA screening (12). It is
interesting that a three-sample test, including samples from the nares, oropharynx, and rectum, …

… advocated as a screening tool for … screening methods have been advocated for hVISA
detection, but their performances have not been compared in a large randomly selected sample of …

… Our results indicated high frequency rate of MRSA in extra-hospital screened samples
isolated from various types of infection. This high resistance rate combined with toxin production …