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. 1994 Sep;32(9):2182-4.
doi: 10.1128/jcm.32.9.2182-2184.1994.

Rapid detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci

S C Edberg  1 , C J Hardalo, C Kontnick, S Campbell
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Rapid detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci

S C Edberg et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1994 Sep.

Abstract

Campylobacter blood agar with clindamycin incubated in 6% CO2 served as a medium to both screen for vancomycin resistance and select for presumptive enterococci. Colonies that grew on the medium were specifically identified as enterococci within 30 min by the pyroglutamyl-beta-naphthylamide and rapid bile esculin tests. The combination of a selective medium plus rapid enzyme substrate tests offered an inexpensive means to enumerate vancomycin-resistant enterococci from specimens by using readily available reagents.

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