The objective of this study is to test whether the use of MRSA PCR testing can safely reduce inappropriate vancomycin use in an intensive care setting. Adult patients with suspicion for CAP who are receiving vancomycin and admitted to the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Vanderbilt University Medical...
Testing for influenza type A and type B Donohue speculated, as he threw out two questions for his physician audience to ponder: "One, should nasal swab surveys be part of our spring training routine physical? Community-acquired MRSA meets baseball Specimens can be obtained from nasopharyngeal aspi...
In swab test, a swab of throat or nose is used to detect an infection. Once the sample is collected, it will be sent to the lab for culturing. This test procedure involves collecting a sample from the site of infection and inoculating the sample into solid or liquid nutrient media (e.g...
Nasopharyngeal and nasal swabs are two methods used to collect respiratory samples for testing using swabs. However, a nasopharyngeal swab is used to collect diagnostic samples from the upper part of the throat, behind the nose, while a nasal swab is used to collect diagnostic samples from the ...
Chi-square testing and odds ratios determined statistical significance at p< 0.05. RESULTS. 170 patients underwent MRSA nasal swab screening and were treated for burn-related infection during the study period. Median age was 53 years, median TBSA was 6.0%, 70% were men, and 77% underwent ...
MRSAPCRwoundSSTIMethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a considerable pathogen in the setting of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs). MRSA PCR swab testing is widely used in the setting of respiratory tract infections, however little data exists relating to the use of MRSA PCR swab ...
2010. MRSA screening: can one swab be used for both culture and rapid testing? An evaluation of chro- mogenic culture and subsequent Hain GenoQuick PCR amplification/ detection. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. 16:955-959.Sherlock, O., A. Dolan, and H. Humphreys. 2010. MRSA screening: can one...
Nasal swabbing is the standard method in many locations for MRSA screening. Its diagnostic efficiency in practice appears to be limited, however, and the resource implications of multiple body site screening have to be balanced against a potential clinical benefit whose magnitude and nature remains ...
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by Kirby鈥揃auer disc diffusion technique. Detection of inducible clindamycin resistance was performed by D test, while detection of methicillin resistantS. aureus(MRSA) was performed by determination of minimum inhibitory concentration of oxacillin by agar ...
Recently, MRSA testing by nasal swab has been utilized to "exclude" pneumonia caused by MRSA, given its high negative-predictive value (NPV). We present, however, a case of MRSA pneumonia diagnosed by endotracheal aspirate culture (EAC) in a patient with a negative MRSA nasal s...