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Direct Microbial Identification using An Automated Microbial Identification System to Facilitate the EUCAST RAST Method Without Mass Spectrometry
Published on: May 24, 2024
Comparative evaluation of BD Phoenix and vitek 2 systems for species identification of common and uncommon pathogenic
Brunella Posteraro1, Alberto Ruggeri, Elena De Carolis
1Institute of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
The BD Phoenix system was evaluated for species-level identification of yeasts (250 clinical isolates) and compared with the Vitek 2 system, using ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence analysis as the gold standard. Considering only the species included in each system's database, 96.3% (236/245) and 91.4% (224/245) of the isolates were correctly identified by BD Phoenix and Vitek 2, respectively.
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