Diagnostic

Wednesday, 10 September 2008 15:00 - 16:30, Halls B, C and D

MRSA detection: comparison of two molecular methods (BD GeneOhm® PCR assay and Easy-Plex) with two selective MRSA agars (MRSASelect ® and Oxoid MRSA) for Nasal swabs
  • Sebastiaan van Hal, Department of Microbiology and infectious diseases, St.Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia, Australia
Evaluation of BD GeneOhm™ MRSA on 331 Danish and 22 International MRSA strains
  • Mette Bartels, Denmark
Culture confirmation of positive BD GeneOhm™ MRSA Assay results
  • Geoff Coombs, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Perth Hospital and PathWest Laboratory Services WA, Perth, Australia
Identification of Staphylococcus spp. by PCR-Restriction fragment length polymorphism of dnaJ gene
  • Stefan Schwarz, Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler Institute (FLI), Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany
Multilocus sequence typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  • Xiaomei Yan, National Institute of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention , Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China
Typing of Staphylococcus aureus based on differentially variable target sequences results in consistency of strain relatedness
  • Damian Melles, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Sequence based dru typing can subtype methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
  • Mette Bartels, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hvidovre hospital, Denmark, Denmark
Application of direct repeat unit (dru) typing to differentiate highly clonal MRSA endemic in Irish hospitals
  • Anna Shore, Microbiology Research Unit, Dublin Dental School & Hospital, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland
High resolution melt analysis of the spa region demonstrates diversity within ST93-MRSA from northern Australia
  • Steven Tong, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Australia
Spa-typing of S. aureus bacteraemia isolates in Denmark
  • Marit Sorum, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, Denmark
Distribution and frequencies of different spa-types of MRSA from Norway
  • Frode Gran, Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway, Norway
  • Petter Elstrøm, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
  • Trond Jacobsen, Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway, Norway
Spa-typing challenging the unique position of PFGE - A comparison of MRSA-isolates from Norway 2006-2007
  • Janne Fossum, Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway., Norway
  • Lillian Marstein, Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway., Norway
  • Anne Kilnes, Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway., Norway
  • Frode W Gran, Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway., Norway
  • Trond Jacobsen, Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway., Norway
Concordance analysis between phage typing and spa typing
  • Marit Sorum, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, Denmark
Evaluation of spa and DiversiLab rep-PCR typing in characterising Western Australian community MRSA clones as defined by MLST/SCCmec
  • Geoffrey Coombs, PathWest Laboratory Medicine - WA, Royal Perth Hospital, Australia
Typing MRSA isolates from hospital outbreaks: PFGE and SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) and binary gene analysis
  • Vikram Vaska, Dept of Microbiology, Pathology Queensland, Herston Hospitals Campus HERSTON QLD 4029 AUSTRALIA, Australia
Identification of MRSA transmission in hospitals: Enhancing phage derived ORF typing with reverse line blot assay detection
  • Matthew O'Sullivan, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney and Western Clinical School, University of Sydney, Australia
Molecular typing of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus by real-time PCR based technologies
  • Jacqueline Schooneveldt, Microbiology, Pathology Queensland, Central Laboratory, Brisbane QLD, Australia
Rapid and cost effective genotyping using diagnostic microarrays in a microtiter-plate
  • Ralf Ehricht, Clondiag GmbH, Germany
  • Peter Slickers, Germany
Comparative genomics of clinical Staphylococcus aureus strains: a microarray based study
  • Deqa Mohamed, Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom
Microbial risk assessment in coagulase negative Staphylococci using a diagnostic microarray
  • Sergine Even, UMR1253 STLO INRA Agrocampus Rennes, France
Preliminary analysis of the whole genome sequences of a clinical MSSA and its presumed MRSA progeny isolate
  • Ad Fluit, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Determination of toxigenic capacity by RT-PCR in coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from newborns in Brazil
  • Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza Cunha, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Botucatu Institute of Biosciences, Botucatu, São Paulo State University/UNESP, SP., Brazil
A comprehensive, novel Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing assay using multiplex PCR based reverse line blot hybridization (mPCR/RLB)
  • Gwendolyn Gilbert, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Australia
Molecular diagnostics of temperate bacteriophages of Staphylococcus aureus
  • Jana Kahankova, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Inst. of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • Roman Pantucek, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Inst. of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Typing of Staphylococcus hominis subsp. novobiosepticus
  • Ivo Sedlacek, Czech Collection of Microorganisms, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic