Evaluation of Two Phenotypic Screening Tests for Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae

We evaluated the performance of two rapid tests for detection of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) strains. The sensitivities and the specificities were 97.6% and 94.4% for the Rapid CARB Screen and 98.8% and 93.1% for the KPC/MBL & OXA-48 Confirm tests, providing the usefulness o...

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Published in:J Clin Microbiol
Main Authors: Pantel, Alix, Souzy, Dimitri, Sotto, Albert, Lavigne, Jean-Philippe
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2015
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Bacteriology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4572552/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26224841
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01211-15
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