We evaluated the performance of the BD Max StaphSR assay for the direct detection of Staphylococcus aureus from blood culture medium. In a two-center trial, 155 blood cultures from the BD Bactec FX system and 212 from the bioMérieux BacT/Alert system were tested; 170 bottles yielded S. aureus, and all were identified correctly by the BD Max StaphSR assay. The assay required approximately 2.5 h, thus allowing rapid identification of blood cultures flagged positive.
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Int J Mol Sci
September 2023
CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, GIMAP Team, Inserm, U1111, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS Lyon, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, 69007 Lyon, France.
Screening patients for nasal carriage has proved effective in preventing cross-contamination and endogenous infection with this bacterium. The aim of this study was to assess the performance of the BD MAX StaphSR assay with liquid Amies elution swabs, taken during routine care of intensive care unit patients. Direct and pre-enriched cultures were used as reference methods to screen for and methicillin-resistant (MRSA).
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August 2020
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Electronic address:
Nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus is a well-referenced risk factor for postoperative surgical site infections (SSIs). Our health care system that performs >40,000 surgeries per year assessed both the diagnostic accuracy of the BD MAX StaphSR assay (MAX StaphSR), a PCR-based test that detects and differentiates S. aureus and methicillin-resistant S.
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September 2017
Esoteric Testing/R&D Laboratory, Pathology Department, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Ann Lab Med
July 2017
Department of Dermatology, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Eczematous lesions of atopic dermatitis (AD) patients are known to be a source of Staphylococcus aureus (SA) transmission and might be a reservoir for community-associated methicillin-resistant SA (MRSA). The BD Max StaphSR (BD-SR) is a fully automated, multiplex real-time PCR assay for the direct detection and differentiation of SA and MRSA from nasal swab samples. We evaluated the detection rates of SA and MRSA from skin lesions of outpatients with AD using the BD-SR assay, and determined the usefulness of the BD-SR assay.
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January 2017
Department of Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University of Korea, Uijeongbu, Korea.
Background: We evaluated the performance of the BD MAX StaphSR Assay (SR assay; BD, USA) for direct detection of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin resistance not only in S. aureus but also in coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CNS) from positive blood cultures.
Methods: From 228 blood culture bottles, 103 S.
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