Reliability of a Screening Method Using Antibiotic Disks to Detect Carbapenemases in Glucose-Nonfermenting Gram-Negative Microorganisms From Clinical Samples of a Regional Hospital in Southeastern Spain.
Itahisa Hernández-ChicoEnrique Rodríguez-GuerreroManuela Expósito-RuizJosé María Navarro-MaríGutierrez-Fernández JoséPublished in: Journal of clinical laboratory analysis (2024)
The combined utilization of MEM and FEP antibiotic disks in 5% sheep blood agar, measuring their inhibition haloes, offers an effective method to predict the presence of carbapenemases as resistance mechanism in P. aeruginosa and A. baumannii.