[PDF] Top 20 Evaluation of the AutoMicrobic system for identification and susceptibility testing of gram negative bacilli

... AMS susceptibility testing was evaluated by comparing ampicillin and cephalothin MICs determined in parallel by AMS and a reference broth microdilution test for stock isolates, and by co[r] ... See full document

... aeruginosa isolates included in that study, 5 were resistant to amikacin and 3 were resistant to gentamicin by the reference method, but these isolates were susceptible to these drugs wh[r] ... See full document

... Although this type of inoculum preparation is not new for rapid processing of blood in the laboratory, the use of a single automated system which provides both rapid identification and a[r] ... See full document

... rapid identification and susceptibility testing of the isolate are important tasks for the clinical microbiology ...antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of bacteria commonly ... See full document

... comparative evaluation of the Crystal Enteric/Nonfermenter system (Crystal; Becton Dickinson, Cock- eysville, ...of gram-negative bacilli, including 381 members of the family ... See full document

... Pheno system (Accelerate Diag- nostics, USA) is a fully automated test system that performs both identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) directly from positive blood ... See full document

... Isenberg, ical laboratory evaluation of a system approach to the Oxi/Ferm tube system, specially designed for recognition of nonfermentative or oxidase-producing identification of OF gra[r] ... See full document

... For the clinical evaluation, routine clinical isolates of gram-negative bacilli were identified by the methods in use in each of four laboratories and by the Autobac IDX system.. Organis[r] ... See full document

... Disagreements were defined as agree >2 if category calls were identical or compatible and GSC+ values differed by >2 dilutions; they were defined as minor if category calls disagreed MS/[r] ... See full document

... p-nitro- DL -phenylalanine, urea, glycine, citrate, malonate, tetrazolium, arginine, and lysine. The utilization and degradation of specific substrates are detected by various indicator systems: pH indicators and ... See full document

... Intralaboratory and interlaboratory reproducibility' of Autobac identification compared with that of identifications obtained with reference methods Pairs in agreement/total no.. of pair[r] ... See full document

... In a recent study by Hansen and Freedy 7, susceptibility test results produced by a variety of systems, including the Vitek with the older GSC card and the Abbott MS-2, were compared wit[r] ... See full document

... antimicrobial susceptibility testing on infectious disease outcome has been systematically assessed by Doern et ...for susceptibility testing ...bility testing of blood isolates could ... See full document

... This procedure, in conjunction with the expanded capacity of the EBC+ card, correctly identified 92.6% of the aerobic and facultative gram-negative bacilli encountered in clinical and se[r] ... See full document

... A rapid test for detection of the susceptibility of an organism to a given antimicrobial agent is more apt than a conventional test to err on the side of calling an organism susceptible [r] ... See full document

... We compared the BID with the AutoMicrobic System AMS; Vitek Systems, Inc., using the most recent gram-negative identification card and software AMS-GNI, for the identification of 501 cli[r] ... See full document

... Positive blood cultures containing gram-negative bacilli were utilized for direct identification by two automated systems, the AutoMicrobic system Vitek Systems, Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.. an[r] ... See full document

... With the new software and data base, 239 77.1% of the 310 organisms tested would be correctly identified to the species or species group level at -85% probability while the number of inc[r] ... See full document

... In this report we compare the susceptibility test results MIC and interpretive category for aerobic and facultatively anaerobic gram-negative bacilli as determined by the AMS GSC+ with r[r] ... See full document

... The identifications were compared with those obtained by the reference system API 20E plus conventional biochemical tests and were classified as i correct to species, in which the first-[r] ... See full document