Detección de la resistencia a meticilina e identificación de Staphylococcus spp. en hemocultivos positivos amplificando los genes mecA y nucA con el sistema LightCycler®

This is a sensitive and highly specific method for identifying staphylococci in positive blood cultures, allowing discrimination between methicillin-susceptible and -resistant strains in less than 3 hours after Gram stain.