Performance of CHROMagar VRE Medium for the Detection of Airborne Vancomycin-Resistant/SensitiveEnterococcusSpecies
| Autor: | Chieh-Chen Cheng, Kai-Chih Chang, Chun-Chieh Tseng, Pao-Kuei Hsiao, Lih-Ming Yiin, Chia-Jung Hsieh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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biology
biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification Pollution Enterococcus faecalis Enterococcus Vancomycin resistant medicine Environmental Chemistry Vancomycin Environmental science General Materials Science Food science medicine.drug Bioaerosol |
| Zdroj: | Aerosol Science and Technology. 48:173-183 |
| ISSN: | 1521-7388 0278-6826 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02786826.2013.865833 |
| Popis: | Vancomycin-sensitive and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VSE and VRE) species have become a significant health problem. CHROMagar medium, which permits direct, color-based identification of target pathogens, could potentially be used to rapidly monitor airborne VSE and VRE. In this study, the efficiency of CHROMagar VRE medium without vancomycin supplementation (CVSE) for collecting airborne vancomycin-sensitive Enterococcus faecalis was evaluated in a chamber study. Subsequently, the performance of bioaerosol samplers combined with CVSE and CHROMagar VRE (CVRE) was evaluated in a hospital environment, a wastewater treatment plant, and a pig-rearing facility. Our results demonstrated that an Andersen impactor was much more effective than a Nuclepore filter for collecting airborne E. faecalis at relative humidity levels of 30% and 55%. In addition, approximately 10% of the isolated environmental Enterococcus strains were vancomycin-resistant. The average sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive val... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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