Evaluation of the AutoMicrobic system gram-positive identification card for species identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci

R. J. Almeida; J. H. Jorgensen; J. E. Johnson

doi:10.1128/jcm.18.2.438-439.1983

Evaluation of the AutoMicrobic system gram-positive identification card for species identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci

R. J. Almeida, J. H. Jorgensen, J. E. Johnson

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The AutoMicrobic system Gram-Positive Identification Card (Vitek Systems, Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.) was evaluated for identification of a group of 150 isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci. Identifications obtained with the Gram-Positive Identification Card were compared with reference identifications derived from 15 conventional biochemical tests. The AutoMicrobic system correctly identified only 67.3% (101 of 150) of the test isolates. The greatest accuracy was achieved with Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates (95.7%), whereas Staphylococcus hominis isolates were least often correctly identified (26.7%).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	438-439
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of clinical microbiology
Volume	18
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.18.2.438-439.1983
State	Published - 1983

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