Growing the bacteria in a lab can tell a healthcare professional ... for specific sequences of bacterial DNA. PCR tests can help detect if MRSA is likely the cause of the infection.

Developed by Roche Molecular Systems, the cobas vivoDx MRSA test uses a new bacteriophage technology based on bioluminescence to detect MRSA from nasal swab samples in as little as five hours ...

Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) has emerged as an almost ubiquitous pathogen in both the community and hospital settings. The predominant clone responsible for community-associated MRSA ...

It seems that growing consideration of the problem of antibiotic resistance — for example, in recommendations that the identity of the causative pathogens is determined with laboratory tests ...

Background and Objective: This study sought to extend the existing research regarding patients' reactions to viewing laboratory test results online by: (a) investigating patients' emotional ...

Medical laboratory scientists collect samples and perform lab tests, calibrate and maintain equipment, and perform statistical analysis. Their work is crucial for clinicians to diagnose diseases.

MRSA is often acquired in hospitals, especially among high risk groups such as people in intensive care units (ICUs). Although infection control has improved, MRSA remains a serious problem if not ...

Remarkably, these strains were able to inhibit the growth of various hospital-associated pathogens, including MRSA. Laboratory tests show MRSA being killed off by these "good" microbes ...

You can also share your mobile speed test results with the FCC to help the organization keep up-to-date records on nationwide mobile broadband coverage. The Measurement Lab Internet Speed Test ...

Computer models suggest this should work at scales far larger than they tested in the lab. While the experiment ... the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission to asteroid 65803 Didymos ...

Hong Kong's Leisure and Cultural Services Department said in a statement on Monday that the eight dead animals were found in ...