In the last 25 years, chromogenic culture media have found widespread application in
diagnostic clinical microbiology. In the last decade, the range of media available to clinical …

Rapid bacterial identification (ID) and antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) are in great
demand due to the rise of drug-resistant bacteria. Conventional culture-based AST methods …

Executive summary Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections remain a
serious cause of healthcare-associated infection (HCAI) in many countries. MRSA is easily …

In the diagnosis of genetic diseases and disorders, nanomaterials-based gene detection
systems have significant advantages over conventional diagnostic systems in terms of …

Clinical laboratories are increasingly using molecular tests for methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening. However, primers have to be targeted to a …

The rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection continues to rise in
many health care settings. Rapid detection of MRSA colonization followed by appropriate …

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the major pathogens
responsible for nosocomial infections. The presence of MRSA in a hospital is detrimental to …

Antimicrobial susceptibility test methods such as disk diffusion, broth microdilution, and
oxacillin screen plate require 24 h of incubation after having the organism growing in pure …

Rapid laboratory diagnosis is critical for treating, managing, and preventing methicillin-
resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. We evaluated and compared the …

We report the use of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) for direct colourimetric polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in clinical …