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ArticleFolia microbiologica2010

Detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus using double duplex real-time PCR and dye Syto 9.

V Seputienė, A Vilkoicaitė, J Armalytė, A Pavilonis, E Sužiedėlienė

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Article in Folia microbiologica, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Transmission rates, screening methods and costs of MRSA--a systematic literature review related to the prevalence in Germany.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2012
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

V SeputienėDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vilnius University, Vilnius LT-03101, Lithuania.
A Vilkoicaitė
J Armalytė
A Pavilonis
E Sužiedėlienė
Vilnius University · LTKaunas University of Technology · LT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A screening method for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and dye Syto 9 was developed and evaluated. The assay was based on the two duplex reactions run simultaneously. The detection reaction amplified staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) right extremity sequences and S. aureus-specific 442-bp DNA (Sa442). The control reaction amplified S. aureus-specific nuclease gene nuc and a marker of methicillin resistance, mecA. The method was evaluated by analyzing 214 clinical S. aureus isolates yielding 98.7 % sensitivity, 100 % specificity, 100 % positive predictive value and 96.6 % negative predictive value for detection of MRSA. The detection limit was determined to be 15-80 genome copies per real-time PCR. It was able to discriminate between MRSA, methicillin resistant coagulase negative staphylococci and methicillin susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) isolates containing only small fragments of the right extremity of the SCCmec (MSSA revertants).

Indexed as

Chromosomes, BacterialHumansMethicillinMethicillin ResistanceMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusOrganic ChemicalsPolymerase Chain ReactionPredictive Value of TestsSensitivity and SpecificityStaphylococcal InfectionsStaphylococcus aureusMethicillinOrganic ChemicalsSYTO 9

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PMID20941587
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