Detection of Staphylococcus aureus
What is Staphylococcus aureus?
DNA BASED METHODS
GENE-TRAK Colorimetric (GENE-TRAK)
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
30 h (Included with enrichment time)
NR

TAQMAN (PE Applied Biosystems)

PCR
NR
NR
Accuprobe Staphylococcus aureus (GenProbe Inc.)
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
NR
NR
IMMUNOASSAY BASED METHODS
Staphylococcus VIA (TECRA) CCD
Immunoassay
NR
NR


Staphylococcus ET VIA (TECRA) CCD
Immunoassay
4-21 h
$8.28

Staphylase (Oxoid) CCD
Immunoassay
NR
NR

VIDAS (bioMerieux Vitek) CCD
ELFA
24-48 h
NR

mini-VIDAS (bioMerieux Vitek) CCD
ELFA
24-48 h
NR

Transia Tube SET test (GENE-TRAK)
Immunoassay
NR
NR

Staphylococcus ET ID VIA (TECRA) CCD
Immunoassay
NR
NR
IMMUNO-LATEX AGGLUTINATION BASED METHODS
SET-RPLA (Unipath Ltd.)
Latex agglutination
16 h for test only
NR

Staph-Rapid Test (Roche, Basel)
Latex agglutination
305 min for test only
NR

Staphylex (Unipath Ltd.)
Latex agglutination
3-5 min for test only
NR

Slidex Staph kit (bioMerieux Vitek) CCD
Latex agglutination
3-5 min for test only
$0.94

Staphylococcus Latex (HardyDiagnostics)
CCD
Latex agglutination
NA
$0.78
Monostaph (Bionor A/S.)
Latex agllutination
3-5 min
NR

Rida-Screen (R-Biopharm GmbH Darmstadt.)
Latex agglutination
NR
$13.00

DRYSPOT Staphytect Plus (Oxoid)
CCD
Latex agglutination
NR
NR

Staphytect (Oxoid) CCD
Latex agglutination
NR
NR

Slide Agglutination test (Becton Dickinson) CCD
Immunoassay on Slide
NR
NR
BIOCHEMICAL METHODS AND OTHERS
Petrifilm Rapid S. aureus method (3M ) CCD
Biochemical reaction
NR
NR
Staphylococcus Hand Checker (Sani-tech, Korea.) CCD
Biochemical reaction (Carbon source untilization)
NR
NR
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