Rapid method for presumptive identification of Corynebacterium jeikeium.

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  • C P Cartwright
  • F Stock
  • P M Kruczak-Filipov
  • V J Gill
چکیده

Corynebacterium jeikeium causes systemic infections, particularly in immunocompromised hosts. A minitube assay has been developed for the presumptive identification of C. jeikeium. With our rapid sucrose-urea test and conventional biochemical tests, sixty isolates of gram-positive, catalase-positive bacilli were identified in our laboratory. Results indicated that our assay has a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 90%.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of clinical microbiology

دوره 31 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1993