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Comparative Study
. 1996 Jun;34(6):1551-2.
doi: 10.1128/jcm.34.6.1551-1552.1996.

Prevalence of fluorescent monoclonal antibody-nonreactive Neisseria gonorrhoeae in five North American sexually transmitted disease clinics

K R Smith  1 , H C Fisher 3rd, E W Hook 3rd
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Comparative Study

Prevalence of fluorescent monoclonal antibody-nonreactive Neisseria gonorrhoeae in five North American sexually transmitted disease clinics

K R Smith et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1996 Jun.

Abstract

We compared a direct fluorescent monoclonal antibody (DFA) test with alternative enzymatic and fermentation tests for identifying presumptive gonococcal isolates in a systematic sample from patients attending five sexually transmitted disease clinics in five cities. Fourteen (2.5%) of 556 isolates from three clinics were nonreactive with DFA confirmatory reagent and reactive by both the Quad-Ferm (BioMerieux Vitek Inc.) and the Rapid NH (Innovative Diagnostic Systems, Inc.) tests. The prevalence of DFA-nonreactive Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates varies geographically and is independent of local methods for the identification of possible gonococci.

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