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Misidentification of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by the Cepheid Xpert MRSA NxG assay, the Netherlands, February to March 2021
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAlexander W Friedrichalex.friedrich umcg.nl
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Citation style for this article: . Misidentification of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by the Cepheid Xpert MRSA NxG assay, the Netherlands, February to March 2021. Euro Surveill. 2021;26(37):pii=2100800. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.37.2100800 Received: 13 Aug 2021; Accepted: 15 Sept 2021
Abstract
We describe two false-negative results in the detection of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) of sequence type 398 and spa type t011 using the Cepheid Xpert MRSA NxG assay. The isolates were recovered in late February and early March 2021 from two patients in different hospitals in the northern Netherlands. Variations between the two isolate genomes indicate that this MRSA strain might have been spreading for some time and could have disseminated to other regions of the Netherlands and other European countries.
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