Authors
Dominique S Blanc, Patrick Basset, Immaculée Nahimana-Tessemo, Katia Jaton, Gilbert Greub, Giorgio Zanetti
Publication date
2011/2
Journal
Journal of clinical microbiology
Volume
49
Issue
2
Pages
722-724
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Description
During a 9-month period, 217 patients were newly diagnosed as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers by using a commercial rapid PCR-based test (GeneXpert). However, no MRSA was recovered by culturing the second swab in 61 of these patients. Further analyses showed that 28 (12.9%) of the patients harbored S. aureus isolates with a staphylococcal cassette chromosome element lacking the mecA gene and were thus incorrectly determined to be MRSA carriers.
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