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Evaluation of two phenotypic screening tests for carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae

Journal of Clinical Microbiology (2015) 53(10) 3359-3362
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01211-15
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Abstract

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 of these tools for screening CPE in microbiology wards.

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Pantel, A., Souzy, D., Sotto, A., & Lavigne, J. P. (2015). Evaluation of two phenotypic screening tests for carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 53(10), 3359–3362. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01211-15

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