… Linear PCR amplification and biotin-dUTP labelling ...........................… aureus typing has relied
exclusively on phenotypic techniques such as antimicrobial resistance profiling, phage typing…

… Such genes encode segments that are amplified by PCR using … to antimicrobial resistance
and global molecular epidemiology. A … Epidemiological Markers, European Staphylococcal …

… methods, such as antibiotyping, phage typing, and pulsed-field gel … the mecA gene, a region
responsible for resistance against … in epidemiological investigations to control and monitor …

… British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy BWA … Community associated methicillin
resistant Staphylococcus aureus … with the continued development of antimicrobial resistance has …

… Unfortunately, epidemiological data on MRSA in Malaysian … Molecular PCR targeting the
nuc and mecA genes was … Collectively, the drug resistance genes identified from our WGS …

… and antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes. The 276 … of this technology in nosocomial
outbreaks but data interpretation … SCC elements harbour the ccr complex but lack mecA or …

… susceptibility testing, protein electrophoresis and phage typing. … done using the PCR specific
for the mecA gene. The technique … : potential and limits for use as epidemiological marker." …

… Molecular epidemiology investigations were carried out … Citation5 Nosocomial MRSA
infections can lead to increased … M, marker, lane 1 to lane 10 represent the PCR positive …

… has emerged due to the acquisition of mecA gene. Methicillin… randomly amplified polymorphic
DNA analysis, and phage typing… and epidemiologic data for molecular typing of methicillin-…

… for the study of global and local epidemiology 51 . In addition, this … The presence of the mecA
gene responsible for resistance … Molecular size markers (Sigma-Aldrich) were also run for …