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Nancy Bourdon1, Raphaël Bérenger, Romain Lepoultier, Audrey Mouet, Claire Lesteven, France Borgey, Marguerite Fines-Guyon, Roland Leclercq, Vincent Cattoir.
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The detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci using a novel commercial multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction assay (Xpert vanA/vanB, Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA) was evaluated on 804 rectal swab specimens. Compared to enriched culture, sensitivity and negative predictive value of this method were 100%. Many false-positive results were recovered (sensitivity, 85.4%; positive predictive value, 8.7%), especially for the vanB gene.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20542208 DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.02.009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis ISSN: 0732-8893 Impact factor: 2.803