Patent ID: 8394945

Claim:
A kit for identifying, determining one or more characteristics of, or detecting a Staphylococcus aureus bioagent comprising a first oligonucleotide primer pair comprising a forward and a reverse primer wherein said forward primer comprises the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 440 and said reverse primer comprises the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1076 and at least one additional primer pair designed to hybridize to a Staphylococcus aureus gene encoding arcC, aroE, gmk, pta, tpi, yqi, wherein said at least one additional primer pair comprises SEQ ID NOs: 437:1232, SEQ ID NOs: 590:891, SEQ ID NOs: 474:869, SEQ ID NOs: 268:1284, SEQ ID NOs: 418:1301, SEQ ID NOs: 318:1300 or a combination thereof.