Development of an expert system for bacterial identification: study of a prototype for identifying β‐galactosidase positive enterobacteria
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Bacteriology
- Vol. 68 (1) , 93-99
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.1990.tb02553.x
Abstract
A prototype of an expert system for the identification of β‐galactosidase positive Enterobacteriaceae has been developed, for use with the API 20 EC kit. The system is implemented in Prolog on an IBM PC AT with 640 K of central memory and 20 megabytes of secondary memory. Its objectives are to highlight errors that can occur when the kit is in use. It can indicate the presence of new groups or species and give advice or suggest additional tests for the differentiation of the new species from those included in the kit.Keywords
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