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Martin Kaase1, Florian Szabados, Lars Wassill
1Department of Medical Microbiology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany. martin.kaase@rub.de
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|July 13, 2012
Abstract:
A commercial multiplex PCR (hyplex SuperBug ID) was tested with a collection of 132 clinical Enterobacteriaceae strains producing different carbapenemases. The sensitivity for the detection of KPC-, VIM-, NDM-, and OXA-48-encoding genes was 100%, whereas two IMP variants were missed.
