Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Diagnostic & Research Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2021 Aug;40(8):1749-1753. doi: 10.1007/s10096-021-04182-w. Epub 2021 Feb 17.
Our study evaluates the performance of two rapid phenotypical tests to detect colistin resistance in Enterobacterales: Alifax rapid AST colistin test using the HB&L system and Rapid Polymyxin NP test prepared in-house. A collection of well-characterized 53 colistin-susceptible and 66 colistin-resistantEnterobacterales isolates was used. The results obtained using both rapid tests were compared to the reference broth microdilution. Overall categorical agreement was 81.5% for Alifax test and 98.3% for Rapid Polymyxin NP test. Based on our results, the Rapid Polymyxin NP test is superior to the Alifax test that performed inadequate for Enterobacter spp.
使用 HB&L 系统的 Alifax 快速 AST 多粘菌素检测和内部制备的 Rapid Polymyxin NP 检测。使用了一组经过充分特征描述的 53 株多粘菌素敏感和 66 株多粘菌素耐药肠杆菌科分离株。这两种快速检测方法的结果与参考肉汤微量稀释法进行了比较。Alifax 试验的总体分类一致性为 81.5%,Rapid Polymyxin NP 试验为 98.3%。根据我们的结果,Rapid Polymyxin NP 试验优于 Alifax 试验,因为后者对肠杆菌属表现出不足。