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A kit designed to perform viability PCR on Staphylococcus aureus. It contains the viability PCR dye PMA and primers to amplify the nuc gene.

This kit is designed to perform viability PCR on Staphylococcus aureus. It contains the viability PCR dye PMA and primers to amplify the nuc gene.

About this kit

Staphylococcus aureus is an anaerobic gram positive bacterium that can cause of a variety of infections in humans, and methicillin-resistant S. aureus is a rising cause of hospital-acquired infections. The primers included in this kit have been tested for amplification of the S. aureus-specific gene nuc gene from genomic DNA from both methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant strains of S. aureus and have been validated at Biotium for real-time qPCR using Forget-Me-Not™ EvaGreen® qPCR Master Mix. Biotium also offers the Staphylococcus aureus (mecA) PMA-PCR kit, which includes primers against the methicillin-resistance gene mecA.

To learn more about the advantages of determining bacterial viability using viability PCR, visit the Viability PCR Technology Page.

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