TABLE 3.
Results of the screening approach
| Yr | Results |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMM panel |
GeneOhm MRSA assay |
Culture |
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| GeneOhm MRSA assay positive |
GPa |
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| No. testedb | No. positive | No. unresolved | No. tested | No. positive | No. unresolved | No. tested | No. positive | No. tested | No. positive | |
| 2012 | 4,117 (2,040) | 557 | 3 | 430 (306) | 76 | 5 | 76 (39) | 50 | 127 (87) | 31 |
| 2013 | 9,270 (5,708) | 1,555 | 3 | 1,428 (1,166) | 289 | 12 | 288 (184)c | 239 | 127 (95) | 30 |
| Total | 13,387 (7,748) | 2,112 | 6 | 1,858 (1,472) | 365 | 17 | 364 (223) | 289 | 254 (182) | 61 |
a
GP, general practitioner.
b
In parentheses, the number of pooled samples tested.
c
One GeneOhm MRSA assay-positive sample could not be cultured.