Multicenter Clinical Evaluation of VRESelect Agar for Identification of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium

作者：Anderson Neil W; Buchan Blake W; Young Carol L; Newton Duane W; Brenke Connie; Lapsley Linda; Granato Paul A; Ledeboer Nathan A^*

来源：Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2013, 51(8): 2758-2760.

DOI：10.1128/JCM.00979-13

A chromogenic medium for identification of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium, VRESelect, was compared to bile esculin azide agar with 6 mu g/ml vancomycin (BEAV) for the isolation of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) from stool specimens. At 24 to 28 h, VRESelect demonstrated 98.7% (confidence interval [CI], 96.1 to 99.7%) sensitivity and 99.0% (CI, 98.0 to 99.6%) specificity versus 85.1% (CI, 79.8 to 89.5%) and 90.1% (CI, 79.8 to 89.5%) sensitivity and specificity, respectively, for BEAV.

• 出版日期2013-8