Detection of Carbapenem-resistance in CRE by Comparative Assessment of RAPIDEC ® CARBA NP and Xpert™Carba-R Assay.
Rehab A EltahlawiAsif A Jiman-FataniNiveen M GadShereen H AhmedMohammed W Al-RabiaShadi ZakaiAyman KharabaDalia El-HossaryPublished in: Infection and drug resistance (2023)
CARBA NP may be a beneficial screening test for detecting CRE, but for confirmation of the results, Xpert Carba-R assay is more sensitive, significantly lowering the turnaround time compared to reference traditional methods. The information on carbapenemase genes may be used for epidemiologic purposes and outbreak management.