Introduction of a hydrolysis probe PCR assay for high-throughput screening of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with the ability to include or exclude detection of Staphylococcus argenteus

• Katja Bogestam ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: katja.bogestam@sll.se

  Affiliation Department of clinical microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6685-1746

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• Martin Vondracek,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of clinical microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Mattias Karlsson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of clinical microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Hong Fang,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of clinical microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Christian G. Giske

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of clinical microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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