Detection of mecC-positive Staphylococcus aureus: What to expect from immunological tests targeting PBP2a?

Céline Dupieux*, Coralie Bouchiat, Anders Rhod Larsen, Bruno Pichon, Mark Holmes, Christopher Teale, Giles Edwards, Robert Hill, Jean Winoc Decousser, Sophie Trouillet-Assant, Andreas Petersen, Robert Skov, Angela Kearns, Frédéric Laurent

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1961-1963
Number of pages3
JournalJournal of Clinical Microbiology
Volume55
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2017

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Funding Information:
We thank all the laboratory technicians who participated in the study and the French National Reference Centre for Staphylococci. This work was supported by Alere, which provided all reagents for the present study but had no control or authority over the selection of isolates, analysis, interpretation, or presentation of the results. None of the authors have competing interests to declare.

Keywords

  • Methicillin resistance
  • PBP2a detection
  • Rapid tests
  • Staphylococcus aureus
  • mecC

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