Evaluation of a selective chromogenic medium for detecting vancomycin-resistant enterococci

Rapid identification of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) can assist in choosing the appropriate treatment and preventing VRE spread. The performance of chromID™ VRE agar was evaluated using 184 clinical isolates of Enterococcus spp. and reference strains. The test had a sensitivity of 95.52% b...

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Autores principales: Soares, Renata Oliveira, Rossato, Adriana Medianeira, Sambrano, Gustavo Enck, Tolfo, Neidimar Cezar Corrêa, Caierão, Juliana, Paim, Thiago Galvão da Silva, d’Azevedo, Pedro Alves
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Research Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28645649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjm.2017.03.005

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