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Saori Nakagawa1, Ikue Taneike, Daigo Mimura, Nobuhiro Iwakura, Teruko Nakayama, Tomoko Emura, Maki Kitatsuji, Atsushi Fujimoto, Tatsuo Yamamoto.
Abstract
A new category of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), called community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA), has emerged worldwide. In contrast to previous MRSA, most CA-MRSA carries the Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) genes (lukPVSF) as a virulence genetic trait. Sequence analysis of the lukPVSF gene of a Japanese isolate demonstrated that the gene has more similarity to methicillin-susceptible S. aureus from France than MRSA from the United States. Based on the sequences, we developed a real-time PCR assay for the three key genes of CA-MRSA; that is, lukPVSF, mecA (for methicillin resistance), and spa (for S. aureus). Dual or triple assay for lukPVSF, mecA, and spa in one test tube became possible. The detection limit of the assay with probe and SYBR Green methods was between 2.7 and 2.7 x 10(1) CFU/ml. The assay detected PVL-positive MRSA in clinical (blood) isolates.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 15707976 DOI： 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.01.054
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun ISSN： 0006-291X Impact factor: 3.575