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CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 418-423Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1086/510684
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The rapid detection and reporting of antimicrobial- resistant pathogens, such as methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin- resistant enterococci, and multidrug- resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a challenge for the clinical microbiology laboratory. Molecular- based diagnostic tests can provide data on the presence of methicillin- resistant S. aureus in the nares in similar to 1 h, whereas testing for the vanA and vanB resistance genes in enterococci isolated from perirectal samples can be completed in similar to 4 h. Novel pyrosequencing assays can provide data regarding the presence of multidrug- resistant M. tuberculosis directly from positive mycobacterial broth cultures in < 1 day. These data can assist physicians in both therapeutic and infection control decisions.
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