COMPARISON OF MINITEK TEST SYSTEM WITH A CONVENTIONAL SCREENING-PROCEDURE FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ENTEROBACTERIACEAE

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 15  (1) , 3-8
Abstract
A Minitek basic 9 disc/11 test system plus arabinose, inositol and rhamnose was compared with a conventional 6 tube screening system for identification of members of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Correlation varied from 88.3-100% with the various substrates when studied against 737 strains of these and other gram-negative bacteria recently isolated in a clinical laboratory. Two discs, citrate and ornithine, which originally gave a correlation of 88.3 and 95.5% respectively were modified so that a final correlation of 99.4 and 96.3% was obtained. The average correlation using the 11 discs was 97%.

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