1. Prevalence of USA300 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at the Hershey Medical Center and the Development of a Novel Multiplex-PCR Method to Detect USA300 MRSA Open Access Author: Bjanes, Elisabet Laura Title: Prevalence of USA300 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at the Hershey Medical Center and the Development of a Novel Multiplex-PCR Method to Detect USA300 MRSA Area of Honors: Immunology and Infectious Disease Keywords: Antibiotic resistancemolecular evolution of MRSAepidemiology of infectious diseaseUSA300 MRSAnovel multiplex-PCR File: Download Bjanes_Elisabet_2014_Development_of_Novel_M-MPCR_to_Detect_USA300_MRSA.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Stephen John Knabel, Thesis SupervisorDr. Pamela A. Hankey-Giblin, Thesis Honors Advisor