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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 743-746Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02071-07
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- NINR NIH HHS [F31 NR009334, 1 F31 NR009334-01] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [T-32] Funding Source: Medline
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We compared the BD GeneOhm methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) PCR assay to culture with BBL CHROMagar MRSA for nasal surveillance among 602 arrestees from the Baltimore City Jail. The sensitivity and specificity were 88.5% and 91.0%, respectively, and after secondary analysis using enrichment broth, they were 89.0% and 91.7%, respectively. Twenty-three of 42 false-positive PCR lysates contained methicillin-susceptible S. aureus.
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