| Literature DB >> 18234878 |
James Goldmeyer1, Haijing Li, Melinda McCormac, Steve Cook, Charles Stratton, Bertrand Lemieux, Huimin Kong, Wen Tang, Yi-Wei Tang.
Abstract
A simple, rapid, and user-friendly procedure has been developed to identify Staphylococcus aureus and determine its methicillin resistance directly from gram-positive cocci in cluster-containing blood culture medium. The specimens were diluted and heated prior to amplification of the nuc and mecA genes with isothermal helicase-dependent amplification. Amplicons were detected using a disposable detection device. The analytical sensitivity of the assays was 50 CFU per reaction, and the clinical sensitivity and specificity were both 100% for S. aureus detection and 100% and 98% for methicillin resistance determination, respectively.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18234878 PMCID: PMC2292917 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02234-07
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948