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ARIES® MRSA Assay

LUMINEX CORPORATION · Model 50-10034 · UDI-DI 00840487101445

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Adverse events (7 deaths)

Recalls

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Description

The ARIES® MRSA Assay is an integrated real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based qualitative in vitro diagnostic test for the direct detection of methicillin–resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) DNA from nasal swabs in patients at risk for nasal colonization

Recalls

Date	Firm	Reason
2025-08-06	Cepheid	As a result of Post-Market half-time stability testing, false negative test result was observed for a positive sample type.
2019-07-17	Becton Dickinson & Co.	The foil bags containing extraction tubes for BD MAX" Reagent products may not been sealed properly.
2019-07-17	Becton Dickinson & Co.	The foil bags containing extraction tubes for BD MAX" Reagent products may not been sealed properly.
2019-07-17	Becton Dickinson & Co.	The foil bags containing extraction tubes for BD MAX" Reagent products may not been sealed properly.
2019-07-17	Becton Dickinson & Co.	The foil bags containing extraction tubes for BD MAX" Reagent products may not been sealed properly.
2017-10-27	Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.	The cobas MRSA/SA tests may have decreased performance compared to the analytical sensitivity for MSRA detection. A screening failure can lead to potential infection in the coloni
2016-07-18	Cepheid	Internal investigation found the certain lots of MRSA kits have the potential for performance issues at lower positive sample concentrations.
2014-07-23	Becton Dickinson & Co.	The performance of the assay no longer conforms to this statement in the Analytical Specificity section of the Package Insert: One hundred-eleven (111) out of 111 MSSA strains tes
2012-05-22	Becton Dickinson & Co.	Leakage in Cepheid SmartCycler reaction tubes.
2011-11-17	Cepheid	Cepheid has received reports from some of its customers regarding higher than desired (>5%) rates of invalid results when using lot numbers 2803 and 3001 of the Xpert MRSA/SA BC (b

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