Rapid detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
Campylobacter blood agar with clindamycin incubated in 6% CO2 served as a medium to both screen for vancomycin resistance and select for presumptive enterococci. Colonies that grew on the medium were specifically identified as enterococci within 30 min by the pyroglutamyl-beta-naphthylamide and rapid bile esculin tests. The combination of a selective medium plus rapid enzyme substrate tests offered an inexpensive means to enumerate vancomycin-resistant enterococci from specimens by using readily available reagents.
Edberg
S C
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Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.
Hardalo
C J
CJ
Kontnick
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Campbell
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D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D016983:Enterococcus / Q000187:drug effects*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D014640:Vancomycin / Q000494:pharmacology*
D014640:Vancomycin