PURPOSE: A study was conducted to compare the S. aureus/CNS PNA FISH™ Culture
Identification Kit (AdvanDx, Woburn MA) to standard microbiology identification methods for …

Staphylococci represent the most commonly encountered blood culture isolates.
Differentiating Staphylococcus aureus from coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) is …

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using peptide nucleic acid (PNA) probes targeting
Staphylococcus aureus 16S rRNA is a novel method for direct identification of S. aureus …

In the study presented here, the performance of the S. aureus PNA FISH assay was
evaluated using 285 blood cultures (from 104 patients) that had gram-positive cocci …

ABSTRACT A novel rapid peptide nucleic acid fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)
method, Staphylococcus Quick FISH, for the direct detection of Staphylococcus species from …

This study explored the possibility of combining direct inoculation of tube coagulase and
DNase tests, and the VITEK2 system, from BACTEC blood culture bottles in order to achieve …

Objectives: A study was conducted to evaluate the impact of implementing the
Staphylococcus Quick FISH assay (AdvanDx, Woburn, MA), which rapidly detects and …

The identification of Staphylococcus aureus directly from blood cultures is clinically relevant,
but it requires a test that is both rapid and reliable. Previously, biochemical, immunological …

The ability of the rapid BinaxNOW Staphylococcus aureus (BNSA) immunochromatographic
test (Alere Scarborough, Inc., ME) to accurately differentiate S. aureus from coagulase …

Peptide nucleic acid fluorescence in situ hybridization (PNA FISH) was instituted at Boston
Medical Center for the rapid identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) …