RAPID METHOD FOR PRESUMPTIVE IDENTIFICATION OF CORYNEBACTERIUM-JEIKEIUM

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CARTWRIGHT, CP
STOCK, F
KRUCZAKFILIPOV, PM
GILL, VJ
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10.1128/JCM.31.12.3320-3322.1993
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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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%.
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