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Blood-Modified Carbapenem Inactivation Method: a Phenotypic Method for Detecting Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae Directly from Positive Blood Culture Broths.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 28 Jan 2020
Sfeir M M, Satlin M J, Fauntleroy K A, Jenkins S G, Westblade L F
Abstract excerpt
A variant of the modified carbapenem inactivation method (mCIM) was developed to detect carbapenemase activity directly from positive blood culture broths. The method, termed "Blood-mCIM," was evaluated using Bactec blood culture bottles (Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ) inoculated with 27 different carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) isolates and 34 different non-CPE isolates. The...
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