Laboratory evaluation of Brilliance™ CRE Agar for screening carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: Performance on a collection of characterised clinical isolates from Greece

Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 85-90

  Kotsakis, Stathis D ^a   Petinaki, Efthymia ^b   Scopes, Emma ^c   Siatravani, Eirini ^a   Miriagou, Vivi ^a   Tzelepi, Eva ^a  

^a HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^c Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

Brilliance CRE Agar; Carbapenemase detection; Carbapenemase producing; Chromogenic culture media; Enterobacteriaceae; Screening cultures

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AGAR MEDIUM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREECE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84893065801     PISSN: 22137165     EISSN: 22137173     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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