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Volume 53, Issue 12

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of vancomycin-resistant by the VITEK 2 system, and comparison with two NCCLS reference methods Free

Abstract

We evaluated the automated VITEK 2 system (bioMérieux) for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of vancomycin-resistant (VRE). The results obtained with the VITEK 2 system were compared to those obtained using two NCCLS reference methods. The VITEK 2 system produced MICs for penicillin G, erythromycin and vancomycin that were very similar to those of the reference agar-dilution test with all results being within a twofold dilution. When MICs of teicoplanin for these isolates were measured by the agar-dilution method and VITEK 2 system, there was one ‘very major’ error and seven ‘minor’ errors. There were no ‘major’ errors for any of the antibiotics tested. When the results obtained by the micro broth-dilution method were compared with those obtained by the VITEK 2 system, there was one ‘very major’ error for teicoplanin by the VITEK 2 system, as was the case with the agar-dilution method. There were two ‘minor’ errors for erythromycin and seven ‘minor’ errors for teicoplanin. There were no ‘major’ errors for any of the antibiotics tested. The 35 VRE strains identified phenotypically by the VITEK 2 Advanced Expert System included nine of and 23 of . Neither nor were identified. A total of 32 phenotypes were classified into 22 VanA and 10 VanB strains. PCR genotyping demonstrated 23 and nine strains. There were differences between the VITEK 2 system results and those of PCR. Overall, 54.3 % of the test results were obtained within 7 h. All MIC values for the 35 VRE isolates were determined within 13 h of completing incubation. The VITEK 2 system is a simple method for accurately detecting vancomycin-resistant strains of and can be used to rapidly determine MICs.

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Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus by the VITEK 2 system, and comparison with two NCCLS reference methods
J. Med. Microbiol. 53, 1229 (2004); https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45765-0
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