This study systematically evaluated a recently described duplex polymerase chain reaction
test for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with 25 different German epidemic …

In order to assess the performance of two detection methods, a set of 93 recent clinical
isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, including a large number of strains that demonstrated …

A commercial system for the rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus,
the BBL Crystal MRSA test (C-MRSA ID; Becton Dickinson, USA), was evaluated …

A multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR), involving detection of the mecA and femB
genes, was combined with a novel immunoassay system capable of detecting specific PCR …

Abstract Staphylococcal hospital isolates (n= 166) were tested in a touchdown multiplex-
polymerase chain reaction assay for the identification of methicillin and mupirocin resistance …

A multiplex PCR was developed to detect the coagulase gene (coa; pathognomic
ofStaphylococcus aureus) and the mecA gene (characteristically encoding for methicillin …

Major challenges in diagnostic molecular microbiology are to develop a simple assay to
distinguish Staphylococcus aureus from the less virulent but clinically important coagulase …

The diagnostic sensitivities of the BD GeneOhm and Cepheid Xpert assays were compared
using culture on log-serial dilutions of well-characterized methicillin-resistant …

In Staphylococcus aureus, mecA and femA are the genetic determinants of methicillin
resistance. By using a multiplex PCR strategy, 310-and 686-bp regions of the mecA and …

One home-developed assay and two commercial assays for the rapid identification of
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) were compared by use of a collection of …