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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

How Accurate Are Veterinary Clinicians Employing Flexicult Vet for Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Urinary Bacteria?

Blaž Cugmas, Miha Avberšek, Teja Rosa, Leonida Godec, Eva Štruc, Majda Golob, Irena Zdovc

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Blaž CugmasVeterinary Clinic Zamba, Vets4science d.o.o., 3000 Celje, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0002-3615-7443
Miha AvberšekVeterinary Clinic Zamba, Vets4science d.o.o., 3000 Celje, Slovenia.
Teja RosaVeterinary Clinic Zamba, Vets4science d.o.o., 3000 Celje, Slovenia.
Leonida GodecVeterinary Clinic Zamba, Vets4science d.o.o., 3000 Celje, Slovenia.
Eva ŠtrucVetamplify SIA, Veterinary Services, 1009 Riga, Latvia.
Majda GolobInstitute of Microbiology and Parasitology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0001-9526-0152
Irena ZdovcInstitute of Microbiology and Parasitology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0002-5419-2779
University of Ljubljana · SIUniversity of Latvia · LV

Funding

European Regional Development Fund Eureka E! 13509European Society of Veterinary Dermatology Minor GrantState Education Development Agency Republic of Latvia 1.1.1.2/VIAA/3/19/455
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibiotics are frequently used for treating urinary tract infections (UTI) in dogs and cats. UTI often requires time-consuming and expensive antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST). Alternatively, clinicians can employ Flexicult Vet, an affordable chromogenic agar with added antibiotics for in-clinic AST. We investigated how well veterinary microbiologists and clinicians, without any prior experience, employ Flexicult Vet for the identification and AST of the most common canine and feline urinary pathogenic bacteria. We prepared 47 monoculture plates containing 10 bacterial species. The test's mean accuracy was 75.1% for bacteria identification (84.6% and 68.7% for microbiologists and clinicians, respectively) and 79.2% for AST (80.7% and 78.2%). All evaluators employed Flexicult Vet with the accuracies over 90% for the distinctively colored bacteria like

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antimicrobial susceptibility testingcatsdogsFlexicult Vetpathogen identificationurinary tract infectionveterinary microbiology

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PMID34680741
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