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Publication type: Article
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| Title: |
High Proportion of Wrongly Identified Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carriers by Use of a Rapid Commercial PCR Assay Due to Presence of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome Element Lacking the mecA Gene?
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| Author(s): |
Blanc,Dominique S
(Author)
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| Source Journal Info. |
Title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
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Issue Number:2011/FEB V.49 N.2
Call No.:616.0105 JCM
Location: References & Periodical Hall - 2nd floor
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| Physical Description: |
p722-724
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| Subject Area: |
Medical sciences
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Pharmacy
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| Accession Number |
125176
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Abstract
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During a 9-month period, 217 patients were newly diagnosed as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers by using a commercial rapid PCR-based test (GeneXpert). However, no MRSA was recovered by culturing the second swab in 61 of these patients ...
Abstract URL:http://jcm.asm.org/content/49/2/722.abstract
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