Evaluation of Two Phenotypic Screening Tests for Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae.

Alix PantelDimitri SouzyAlbert SottoJean-Philippe Lavigne

Published in: Journal of clinical microbiology (2015)

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.

Keyphrases

klebsiella pneumoniae
escherichia coli
multidrug resistant
loop mediated isothermal amplification
acinetobacter baumannii
drug resistant
gram negative
pseudomonas aeruginosa
high throughput
sensitive detection
infectious diseases
single cell