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Microbiological evaluation of a new growth-based approach for rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jun 2008
von Eiff Christof, Maas Dominik, Sander Gunnar, Friedrich Alexander W, Peters Georg, Becker Karsten
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OBJECTIVES: Recently, a rapid screening tool for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been introduced that applies a novel detection technology allowing the rapid presence or absence of MRSA to be determined from an enrichment broth after only a few hours of incubation. To evaluate the reliability of this new assay to successfully detect MRSA strains of different origin and clonality,...
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