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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2018

A comparison of Sensititre™ Anaerobe MIC plate with ATB ANA® test for the routine susceptibility testing of common anaerobe pathogens.

Abdessalam Cherkaoui, Adrien Fischer, Nouria Azam, Arnaud Riat, Jacques Schrenzel

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Article in European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Abdessalam CherkaouiBacteriology Laboratory, Service of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Genetics, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland. abdessalam.cherkaoui@hcuge.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1801-5935
Adrien FischerBacteriology Laboratory, Service of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Genetics, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland.
Nouria AzamBacteriology Laboratory, Service of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Genetics, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland.
Arnaud RiatBacteriology Laboratory, Service of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Genetics, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland.
Jacques SchrenzelBacteriology Laboratory, Service of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Genetics, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland.
University Hospital of Geneva · CHUniversity of Geneva · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The accuracy of the Thermo Scientific™ Sensititre™ Anaerobe MIC plate was assessed against the ATB ANA® test (bioMérieux) on 56 clinically relevant anaerobic strains collected at Geneva University Hospitals. The overall categorical agreement between both methods reached 95%. The Sensititre™ Anaerobe MIC plate had excellent accuracy for most antibiotics tested. When the Sensititre™ Anaerobe MIC plate disagreed with ATB ANA® test, the gradient strip method resolved the antimicrobial susceptibility categories of all the antibiotics tested, except for piperacillin, piperacillin-tazobactam, and penicillin, in favor of the Sensititre™ Anaerobe MIC plate (58% [21 out of 36]). Several very major errors were observed for piperacillin (12.5% [7 out of 56]), piperacillin-tazobactam (12.5% [7 out of 56]), and penicillin (2% [1 out of 56]). The gradient strip method revealed that the categorical differences for piperacillin, piperacillin-tazobactam, and penicillin were at least partly explained by heterogeneity in resistance expression. The Sensititre™ Anaerobe MIC plate offers therefore a useful alternative to the ATB ANA® test for the routine antimicrobial susceptibility testing of anaerobes in clinical microbiology laboratories.

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Anti-Bacterial AgentsBacteria, AnaerobicCross InfectionGram-Negative BacteriaGram-Positive BacteriaMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPenicillinsPiperacillinSwitzerlandAnti-Bacterial AgentsPenicillinsPiperacillinAnaerobesATB ANA testGradient strip methodHeteroresistanceSensititre broth dilution

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