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Evaluation of the VITEK 2 System for Rapid Identification of Medically Relevant Gram-Negative Rods
1 Jul 1998
Abstract excerpt
The new VITEK 2 system (bioMérieux) was evaluated at two independent sites with the identification card for gram-negative bacilli (ID-GNB card). Of the 845 strains tested, which represented 70 different taxa belonging to either the family Enterobacteriaceae or the nonenteric bacilli, 716 (84.7%) were correctly identified at the species level. Thirty-two (3.8%) additional strains were identified to the species...
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