Rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in screening samples by relative quantification between the mecA gene and the SA442 gene

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• 作者：Lonneke G.M. Bode^a ; ^b ; ^{l.bode@erasmusmc.nl} ; Perry van Wunnik^a ; ^{wunninkp@rdgg.nl} ; Norbert Vaessen^b ; ^{n.vaessen@erasmusmc.nl} ; Paul H.M. Savelkoul^a ; ^{savel@rdgg.nl} ; Leo C. Smeets^a ; ^{lsmeets@rdgg.nl}
• 关键词：MRSA ; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ; MSSA ; methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus ; MRCNS ; methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative Staphylococcus ; PCR ; polymerase chain reaction ; RQ-PCR ; relative quantification PCR ; SCCmec ; Staphylococc
• 刊名：Journal of Microbiological Methods
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：59_01677012
• 类别：imm
• 出版时间：May, 2012
• 卷：89
• 期：2
• 页码：129-132
• 文件大小：207 K

摘要

Rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is important to identify patients colonized with this pathogen and implement infection control precautions. We aimed to improve the combined use of the mecA gene polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the SA442 PCR to detect MRSA in clinical screening samples. In a true MRSA the mecA copy number will be equal to the SA442 copy number, whereas in samples with a methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) combined with a methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (MRCNS) the copy numbers will usually differ. Here we introduce a PCR system, relative quantification PCR (RQ-PCR), which takes this difference into account. RQ-PCR identifies true MRSA in clinical samples with a specificity that is comparable to the SCCmec-based PCRs.