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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology1999

Comparative performance of the RapID Yeast Plus System and the API 20C AUX Clinical Yeast System.

M B Smith, D Dunklee, H Vu, G L Woods

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans and other opportunistic fungi from pigeon droppings.Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2013
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  5. Invasive Japanese beetles facilitate aggregation and injury by a native scarab pest of ripening fruits.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2009
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4 authors.

M B SmithDivision of Microbiology, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-0740, USA. mismith@utmb.edu
D Dunklee
H Vu
G L Woods

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The performance of the RapID Yeast Plus System (Innovative Diagnostic Systems, Norcross, Ga.), a 4-h micropanel using single-substrate enzymatic test reactions, was compared with that of the API 20C AUX Clinical Yeast System (bioMerieux Vitek, Hazelwood, Mo.), a 48- to 72-h carbohydrate assimilation panel. Two hundred twenty-five yeasts, yeast-like fungi, and algae, comprising 28 species and including 30 isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans, an important pathogen not tested in appreciable numbers in other comparisons, were tested by both methods. On initial testing, 196 (87.1%) and 215 (95.6%) isolates were correctly identified by the RapID and API systems, respectively. Upon repeat testing, the number of correctly identified isolates increased to 220 (97.8%) for the RapID system and 223 (99.1%) for the API system. Reducing the turbidity of the test inoculum to that of a no. 3 McFarland turbidity standard, which is below that recommended by the manufacturer, resulted in the correct identification of most of the isolates initially misidentified by the RapID system, including 10 of 30 C. neoformans isolates. Concordance between the RapID and API results after repeat testing was 97.3%.

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Mycological Typing TechniquesFungiHumansMycosesSensitivity and Specificity

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PMCPMC85317

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