Carbapenem disks on MacConkey Agar in screening methods for detection of carbapenem-resistant gram-negative rods in stools

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 331-333

  Blackburn, Julie ^b   Tsimiklis, Catherine ^a,b   Lavergne, Valéry ^a,b   Pilotte, Josée ^c   Grenier, Sophie ^c   Gilbert, Andrée ^c   Lefebvre, Brigitte ^c   Domingo, Marc Christian ^c   Tremblay, Cécile ^b,c   Bourgault, Anne Marie ^c,d  

^a HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM;

AGAR MEDIUM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT GRAM NEGATIVE ROD; DISK DIFFUSION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MACCONKEY MEDIUM; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY;

AGAR; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CULTURE MEDIA; FECES; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84871697290     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02878-12     Document Type: Article

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