Hospital Preventive Medicine Service, Institute of Microbiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.
J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Feb;49(2):722-4. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01988-10. Epub 2010 Dec 15.
During a 9-month period, 217 patients were newly diagnosed as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers by using a commercial rapid PCR-based test (GeneXpert). However, no MRSA was recovered by culturing the second swab in 61 of these patients. Further analyses showed that 28 (12.9%) of the patients harbored S. aureus isolates with a staphylococcal cassette chromosome element lacking the mecA gene and were thus incorrectly determined to be MRSA carriers.
在 9 个月期间,使用一种商业性的快速基于 PCR 的检测(GeneXpert),217 位患者被新诊断为耐甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌(MRSA)携带者。然而,在这 61 位患者中,通过培养第二份拭子,没有回收 MRSA。进一步分析表明,28 位(12.9%)患者携带缺乏 mecA 基因的葡萄球菌盒染色体元件的金黄色葡萄球菌分离株,因此被错误地确定为 MRSA 携带者。