title: Rapid detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
abstract: 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.
authors: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.
authors: S C
authors: SC
authors: Edberg
authors: C J
authors: CJ
authors: Hardalo
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Kontnick
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Campbell
mesh_terms: D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D016983:Enterococcus / Q000187:drug effects*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D014640:Vancomycin / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D014640:Vancomycin