This Clinical Insights discusses how the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nares swab may be used alongside disease prevalence and

2020年8月22日 · Subsequent clinical cultures within 7 days of the nares swab were evaluated for the presence of MRSA. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive values, and NPVs were …

2022年11月22日 · Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an important cause of community and health care–associated infections and is associated with substantial morbidity …

The MRSA nasal PCR is also a screening test for MRSA colonization in the nares, but this test will be used to identify pneumonia patients at low risk for having MRSA as the causative organism, …

Nasal colonization with MRSA is associated with clinical MRSA infection and can be reliably detected using the nasal swab PCR assay. In this study, we evaluated the performance of the …

Thirty patients (25.9%) had a positive MRSA nares swab and culture for a sensitivity of 57.7% and specificity of 92.2%. Positive predictive value (PPV) for MRSA nares swab was 85.7% and …

2024年12月10日 · When Can a MRSA Nares Swab Guide Antibiotic Stewardship?: What the Nose Knows. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Dec 9. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.6436. Epub …

2019年7月25日 · Purpose: To allow pharmacist ordering of nasal MRSA PCR in order to facilitate de-escalation of empiric antibiotic coverage of MRSA pneumonia. Treatment of pneumonia …

We sought to determine whether the bacterial burden in the nares, as determined by the cycle threshold (CT) value from real-time MRSA PCR, is predictive of environmental contamination …

Pharmacist-driven MRSA PCR nasal screening for de-escalation of empiric vancomycin Multiple studies have shown that MRSA pneumonia is highly unlikely in the absence of detectable …