Cookson S T, Lopardo H, Marin M, Arduino R, Rial M J, Altschuler M, Galanternik L, Swenson J M, Tokars J I, Jarvis W R
Hospital Infections Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 1997 Oct;29(2):107-9. doi: 10.1016/s0732-8893(97)00099-0.
Few reports of vancomycin-resistant enterococci have appeared outside the USA. Therefore, we evaluated the ability of five laboratories in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to perform susceptibility testing using the disk diffusion method. Laboratories had difficulty identifying the low- and intermediate-level vancomycin-resistant phenotypes. This suggests that the disk diffusion method used by laboratories abroad may fail to detect some vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
在美国以外，关于耐万古霉素肠球菌的报道很少。因此，我们评估了阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯的五个实验室使用纸片扩散法进行药敏试验的能力。这些实验室在识别低水平和中等水平耐万古霉素表型方面存在困难。这表明国外实验室使用的纸片扩散法可能无法检测到一些耐万古霉素肠球菌。
