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Comparison of ESwab with Traditional Swabs for Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Using Two Different Walk-Away Commercial Real-Time PCR Methods

2014; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 52; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/jcm.00315-14

ISSN

1098-660X

Autores

Suzane Silbert, Carly Kubasek, Dominic Uy, Raymond Widen,

Tópico(s)

Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management

Resumo

The ESwab system (Copan Diagnostics) was evaluated as a nasopharyngeal specimen collection device to be used for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) detection by the GeneXpert and BD Max MRSA assays. Different MRSA strains and dilutions of each strain were tested in triplicate. ESwabs proved to be a suitable collection system for the two assays tested.

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