The FDA has approved the first rapid blood test for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). It is the two-hour BD GeneOhm StaphSR Assay, which identified 100% of the MRSA-positive ...

Diagnostics company bioMerieux (PARIS:BIM) has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a test to detect and screen for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus, more ...

On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new test for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus detection manufactured by Cepheid. Cepheid’s Xpert MRSA NxG test delivers ...

BD Diagnostics, a segment of Becton, Dickinson and Co., has announced it received FDA clearance to market a new MRSA test, according to a news release. BD received clearance for the BD MAX MRSA ...

Scientists have identified a new strain of MRSA that occurs both in human and dairy cow populations and could go undetected under standard MRSA testing, according to a University of Cambridge news ...

bioMérieux, French manufacturer of diagnostic solutions, has received FDA 510(k) approval for NucliSENS EasyQ MRSA, an automated molecular test for MRSA, according to a company news release. The test ...

July 3, 2010 — A test to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and S aureus (SA) has been recalled by the manufacturer based on an increasing number of complaints about false ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a blood culture test that can determine if Staphylococcus aureus bacteria infections are methicillin resistant (MRSA) or methicillin susceptible ...

Mar. 23 -- THURSDAY, Jan. 3 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first rapid test to detect the widely publicized drug-resistant staph bacterium known as MRSA ...

Co announces it received clearance from the FDA to market its Xpert M.R.S.A test, which runs on the GeneXpert System, for the rapid detection of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. "Currently ...

Decolonizing Parents Cuts NICU Staph Transmission Risk Decolonizing the parents of infants in neonatal intensive care units may reduce the risk of the parents transmitting Staphylococcus aureus to the ...