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Evaluation of Vitek MS for rapid classification of clinical isolates belonging to Mycobacterium avium complex
Daniel P Boyle1, Teresa R Zembower1, Chao Qi2
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Abstract:
We evaluated the ability of the Vitek MS system to classify clinical pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex isolates compared to multilocus sequence analysis. Vitek MS accurately identified 55% of the isolates as M. avium and 18% as M. intracellulare, but misidentified 24 (27%) Mycobacterium chimaera isolates as Mycobacterium intracellulare.
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