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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages 722-724Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01988-10
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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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