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Rapid method for presumptive identification of Corynebacterium jeikeium
C P Cartwright1, F Stock, P M Kruczak-Filipov
1Clinical Pathology Department, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
Corynebacterium jeikeium causes systemic infections, particularly in immunocompromised hosts. A minitube assay has been developed for the presumptive identification of C. jeikeium. With our rapid sucrose-urea test and conventional biochemical tests, sixty isolates of gram-positive, catalase-positive bacilli were identified in our laboratory. Results indicated that our assay has a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 90%.