Comparison of Eight Methods To Detect Vancomycin Resistance in Enterococci
| Autor: | Alex van Belkum, Henri A. Verbrugh, Deborah Kreft, Hubert P. Endtz, Nicole van den Braak, A. Barnard Stroebel, Wil H. F. Goessens |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Vancomycin resistance biology Reproducibility of Results Bacteriology Drug Resistance Microbial Drug resistance Microbial Sensitivity Tests biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition biology.organism_classification bacterial infections and mycoses Sensitivity and Specificity Microbiology Agar dilution Anti-Bacterial Agents Enterococcus Vancomycin medicine bacteria Agar screen Antibacterial agent medicine.drug |
| Popis: | A collection of genetically unrelated vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) including 50 vanA , 15 vanB , 50 vanC1 , and 30 vanC2 VRE were used to evaluate the accuracy of eight currently available susceptibility test methods (agar dilution, disk diffusion, E-test, agar screen plate, Vitek GPS-TA and GPS-101, and MicroScan overnight and rapid panels). vanA VRE were detected by all methods. vanB VRE were often not detected by Vitek GPS-TA and MicroScan rapid (sensitivities, 47 and 53%, respectively), though the new Vitek GPS-101 was found to be a significant improvement. E-test and the agar screen were the only two methods detecting all VRE, including the vanC1/C2 VRE. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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