Patent ID: 8080381

Claim:
A probe set of infection detection probes each of which can detect an existence of a 16s rRNA gene originating in Staphylococcus aureus in a sample in which one or more of Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Serratia marcescens, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Enterobacter cloacae and Enterococcus faecalis possibly exists, wherein the probe set comprises nine oligonucleotides, each consisting of a different one of the following base sequences (A) to (I): (A) SEQ ID No. 1 or the complementary sequence thereof; (B) SEQ ID No. 2 or the complementary sequence thereof; (C) SEQ ID No. 3 or the complementary sequence thereof; (D) SEQ ID No. 4 or the complementary sequence thereof; (E) SEQ ID No. 5 or the complementary sequence thereof; (F) SEQ ID No. 6 or the complementary sequence thereof; (G) SEQ ID No. 7 or the complementary sequence thereof; (H) SEQ ID No. 8 or the complementary sequence thereof; and (I) SEQ ID No. 9 or the complementary sequence thereof.