Article
Performance of the EUCAST disk diffusion method, the CLSI agar screen method, and the Vitek 2 automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing system for detection of clinical isolates of Enterococci with low- and medium-level VanB-type vancomycin resistance: a multicenter study.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2014
Hegstad Kristin, Giske Christian G, Haldorsen Bjørg, Matuschek Erika, Schønning Kristian, Leegaard Truls M, Kahlmeter Gunnar, Sundsfjord Arnfinn
Abstract excerpt
Different antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods to detect low-level vancomycin resistance in enterococci were evaluated in a Scandinavian multicenter study (n=28). A phenotypically and genotypically well-characterized diverse collection of Enterococcus faecalis (n=12) and Enterococcus faecium (n=18) strains with and without nonsusceptibility to vancomycin was examined blindly in Danish (n=5), Norwegian...
Topics
- Agar
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacterial Proteins
- Culture Media
- Disk Diffusion Antimicrobial Tests
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Enterococcus faecium
- Genotype
- Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections