A novel approach to eliminate detection of contaminating Staphylococcal species introduced during clinical testing.

We describe here a strategy that can distinguish between Staphylococcus species truly present in a clinical sample from contaminating Staphylococcus species introduced during the testing process. Contaminating Staphylococcus species are present at low levels in PCR reagents and colonize lab personne...

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Main Authors: Wanyuan Ao, Adrianne Clifford, Maylene Corpuz, Robert Jenison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5321469?pdf=render