Comparison of the Roche LightCycler vanA/vanB Detection Assay and Culture for Detection of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci from Perianal Swabs

We compared the performance characteristics of a real-time PCR method, the LightCycler vanA/vanB detection assay (Roche Diagnostics Corporation, Indianapolis, Ind.) to that of Enterococcosel agar (BBL, Sparks, Md.) for direct detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) from 894 perianal stoo...

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Main Authors: Sloan, L. M., Uhl, J. R., Vetter, E. A., Schleck, C. D., Harmsen, W. S., Manahan, J., Thompson, R. L., Rosenblatt, J. E., Cockerill, F. R.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2004
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Bacteriology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC427841/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15184445
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.42.6.2636-2643.2004
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