Comparative evaluation of chromID MRSA agar and Brilliance 2 MRSA agar for detection of MRSA in clinical samples

Evaluation of two commercially available chromogenic media for confirmation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from human, animal, and food samples

“…These results are similar to those obtained previously in human clinical samples (McElhinney et al, 2013;Veenemans et al, 2013). However, a significantly lower performance was observed in the MRSA confirmation of food-derived isolates by using Brilliance MRSA 2 agar in comparison to PCR-based MRSA confirmation (p = 0.003) or ChromID MRSA agar Table 1 Comparative diagnostic performance of Brilliance MRSA 2 Agar and ChromID MRSA agar for detection of animal, human and food isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.…”

“…Several commercially available chromogenic media have been developed to facilitate the screening of MRSA, and some studies have assessed their diagnostic performance (McElhinney et al, 2013;Veenemans et al, 2013;Verkade et al, 2011). However, they have been mainly focused in human clinical samples, and there is a knowledge gap regarding MRSA from animal and food samples.…”

Probing the dissonance among the diagnostic outputs of multiple approaches used for detection of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

“…Many commercial assays based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) such as FluoroType® MRSA system (Hain-life science GmbH, Nehren, Germany) have been developed. Although these assays are costly and requires high technical skills (17,18).…”