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Impact of a short period of pre-enrichment on detection and bacterial loads of methicillin-resistant **Staphylococcus aureus** from screening specimens
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Abstract
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| We compared the impacts of direct plating on a chromogenic medium and of plating after enrichment (4 h and overnight) on the detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from 52 patient screening samples. MRSA colony counts for 70% of samples after overnight pre-enrichment were >20-fold higher than the counts after the other two treatments. The qualitative differences (sample was MRSA positive/negative) between the results of the direct plating and 4-h pre-enrichment treatments were not significant, indicating no advantage of the latter; however, the number of samples positive for MRSA increased significantly after an overnight sample pre-enrichment (P < 0.005) |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of clinical microbiology. - Washington, D.C.
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Publication
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Washington, D.C.
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2009
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ISSN
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0095-1137
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47
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(2009)
, p. 3326-3328
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ISI
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000270351700038
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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