| Literature DB >> 20739492 |
Paul D Stamper1, Stephanie Shulder, Pearl Bekalo, Deepika Manandhar, Tracy L Ross, Sharon Speser, Julie Kingery, Karen C Carroll.
Abstract
A study was performed on 517 surveillance rectal swabs to evaluate a selective and differential chromogenic medium, the BBL CHROMagar VanRE (CVRE), which enables recovery and identification of VanA- and VanB-containing Enterococcus faecium (ENFM) and Enterococcus faecalis (ENFS) isolates. Compared to BBL Enterococcosel agar, a bile-esculin-azide-vancomycin (BEAV) agar, the initial overall sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of CVRE for the detection of vancomycin-resistant ENFM and ENFS were 99.1% and 94.8% and 84.2% and 99.7%, respectively. Among our patient population, more vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) were recovered with CVRE than BEAV.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20739492 PMCID: PMC3020859 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01522-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948