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ArticleAnnals of Saudi medicine

Rapid identification of nosocomial Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from a surgical intensive care unit in Egypt.

Doaa Mohammad Ghaith, Reem Mostafa Hassan, Ahmed Mohamed Hasanin

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Article in Annals of Saudi medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Doaa Mohammad GhaithDr. Doaa Ghaith, Clinical and Chemical Pathology Department,, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University,, 1 Al-Saray St. Al-Manial, Cairo 11559,, Egypt, T: (+202) 23654480, F: (+202) 23641687, doaa.ghaith@kasralainy.edu.eg.
Reem Mostafa Hassan
Ahmed Mohamed Hasanin
Cairo University · EG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe rapid and accurate identification of nosocomial clinical isolates is the first essential step in investigating nosocomial outbreaks. We aimed to evaluate the performance of MDR-CHROMagar Acinetobacter versus matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) in rapid detection of nosocomial Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from patients admitted to the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) of Kasr Alainy- Cairo University.

methodsOver a period of 9 months from January 2014 until September 2014, 234 samples were collected. All samples were directly cultured on MDR-CHROMagar Acinetobacter media. MALDI-TOF MS was used to identify all non-lactose fermenting colonies on conventional media. Confirmation of species identification was done by detecting the blaOXA-51 like gene by PCR.

resultsStatistical evaluation of MDR-CHROMagar Acinetobacter against blaOXA-51 like PCR as the reference method for identification of A baumannii showed a sensitivity of 100% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 93.36% to 100%), specificity 98.8% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 96.04% to 99.68%), positive predictive value 96.4% (95%CI: 86.61% to 99.37%), negative predictive value 100% (95% CI: 97.36% to 100%). The statistical evaluation of MALDI-TOF against blaOXA-51 PCR was 100% concordance.

conclusionMALDI-TOF MS was more specific than CHROMagar in identifying Acinetobacter spp and allowed further identification of non-A Baumannii species such as A hemolyticus and A nosocomialis, which are less common Acinetobacter spp involved in hospital-acquired infections.

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Acinetobacter baumanniiAcinetobacter InfectionsBacteriological TechniquesCross InfectionEgyptHumansIntensive Care UnitsPolymerase Chain ReactionPredictive Value of TestsSensitivity and SpecificitySpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization

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