Chromogenic biplate in detecting S.aureus and MRSA at the same time

Given the potentially large number of individuals requiring screening within a pre-surgical population, rapid and cost-effective surveillance mehthod are needed. We evaluated the performance of the biplate ChromID MRSA/ChromID S.aureus for the simultaneous detection of Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA in preoperative screening samples. The sensitivity and specificity were 94.2% and 93.6%, respectively for the S. aureus compartment and 92.9% and 99.7% for the MRSA compartment after 48 hours incubation.This paper is published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology and can be found here.