Journal article
COMPARISON of FOUR LATEX AGGLUTINATION KITS to RAPIDLY IDENTIFY LANCEFIELD GROUP D ENTEROCOCCI and FECAL STREPTOCOCCI
Journal of rapid methods and automation in microbiology, Vol.1(4), pp.301-304
Accepted for Publication February 1, 1993
12/1992
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-4581.1992.tb00277.x
Abstract
Enterococci isolated from water (50 strains), clinical material (50 strains), pork products (25 strains), and other foods (25 strains) as well as 50 known strains were used to compare the abilities of four latex streptococcal grouping kits to correctly identify group D isolates. the Streptex kit (Wellcome Diagnostics) was 98.5% accurate and easiest to interpret. the Slidex Strepto kit (Vitek Systems) and Strepslide kit (NCS Diagnostics) also were acceptable; they were 96.5% and 96.0% accurate, respectively. When the Bacto Strep Grouping kit (Difco Laboratories) was used, 99% of the group D isolates were positive for both group D and group B, including enterococcal strains that are group D‐negative. Copyright © 1992, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- COMPARISON of FOUR LATEX AGGLUTINATION KITS to RAPIDLY IDENTIFY LANCEFIELD GROUP D ENTEROCOCCI and FECAL STREPTOCOCCI
- Creators
- LINDA M. Knudtson - Iowa State UniversityPAUL A. Hartman - Iowa State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of rapid methods and automation in microbiology, Vol.1(4), pp.301-304
- Edition
- Accepted for Publication February 1, 1993
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1745-4581.1992.tb00277.x
- ISSN
- 1060-3999
- eISSN
- 1745-4581
- Number of pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/1992
- Academic Unit
- Microbiology and Immunology
- Record Identifier
- 9984297314802771
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