Evaluation of Etest® strips for detection of KPC and metallo-carbapenemases in Enterobacteriaceae

Girlich, Delphine; Halimi, Diane; Zambardi, Gilles; Nordmann, Patrice

doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.08.002

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Evaluation of Etest® strips for detection of KPC and metallo-carbapenemases in Enterobacteriaceae

Girlich, Delphine INSERM U914 “Emerging Resistance to Antibiotics”, Faculté de Médecine Paris Sud, K.-Bicêtre, France
Halimi, Diane Research and Development Microbiology, bioMérieux, La Balme-les-Grottes, France
Zambardi, Gilles Research and Development Microbiology, bioMérieux, La Balme-les-Grottes, France
Nordmann, Patrice INSERM U914 “Emerging Resistance to Antibiotics”, Faculté de Médecine Paris Sud, K.-Bicêtre, France - Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

2013

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Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. - 2013, vol. 77, no. 3, p. 200–201

English The performance of Etest KPC and MBL strips (bioMérieux) was evaluated as compared to other phenotypic tests for detecting carbapenemases of the KPC-type and metallo-β-lactamases, respectively, on 133 well-characterized enterobacterial isolates. KPC and meropenem-containing MP/MPI Etest had high sensitivity (>92 %) and specificity (>97 %).

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Faculté des sciences et de médecine

Department

Médecine 3ème année

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