10 Evaluation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage in the elderly in Portugal using selective enrichment followed by qPCR

Sónia Margarida Tavares Matos Almeida
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB NOVA)
soniaalmeida@itqb.unl.pt
Ana C. Paulo, LMMHP, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal; Hermínia de Lencastre, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal; and Laboratory of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA; Raquel Sá-Leão, LMMHP, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal