Evaluation of the Repliscan II System for identification of Enterobacteriaceae

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Abstract
Recent improvements prompted the evaluation of Repliscan II by using representative isolates of the population sample previously used to test the system. Isolates (692) representing 8 genera were identified in parallel by the Repliscan II and API20E systems. Isolates given different identifications by the 2 systems were assigned reference identifications by using classical microbiological methods. Repliscan II identified 95.2% correctly, 4.0% incorrectly and 0.7% as unknown. API 20E identified 99.4% correctly, 0.6% incorrectly and none as unknown. Repliscan II correctly identified Salmonella and Shigella spp. to the genus level and isolates of 6 other genera to the species level as follows: Salmonella spp., 100%; Shigella spp., 97.7%; Escherichia spp., 95.2%; Citrobacter spp., 82.1%; Enterobacter spp., 85.2%; Klebsiella spp., 98.6%; Proteus spp., 97.2%; and Serratia spp., 97.9%. These findings indicate that Repliscan II is a significantly improved system and provides acceptable identification of Enterobacteriaceae.

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