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Identification of urinary pathogens by the RAPIDEC ur system
1Public Health Laboratory, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.
Journal of Medical Microbiology
|July 1, 1995
Abstract:
A commercial method (RAPIDEC ur; bioMérieux UK Ltd, Basingstoke) and an in-house scheme based on conventional tests were compared for the identification of 179 commonly encountered gram-negative urinary pathogens. The methods identified correctly to genus level 97% and 84% of organisms, respectively. RAPIDEC ur was superior at identifying Escherichia coli, due to the detection of beta-glucuronidase activity, but less cost-effective than the in-house scheme.