title: Clinical evaluation of the rapid carbohydrate degradation microtube method for identification of Neisseria species.
abstract: The rapid carbohydrate degradation (Carr Microbiologicals Wichita, Kans.) microtube method is a new test system designed for the identification of Neisseria spp. The system consists of four microtubes containing different carbohydrates in a peptone-Bitone basal medium. This method was evaluated for accuracy and speed in identifying species of Neisseria. Of the 386 clinical isolates used in this study, 98.4% were correctly identified to species level in 4 h with the rapid carbohydrate degradation system; parallel testing of the same isolates with conventional cystine-tryptic agar resulted in 96.1% accuracy in 48 h.
mesh_terms: D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007785:Lactose / Q000378:metabolism; D008320:Maltose / Q000378:metabolism; D009343:Neisseria / Q000145:classification* / Q000378:metabolism; D013395:Sucrose / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D013395:Sucrose; D008320:Maltose; D005947:Glucose; D007785:Lactose