Comparison of the SUPERCARBA, CHROMagar KPC, and Brilliance CRE screening media for detection of Enterobacteriaceae with reduced susceptibility to carbapenems - PubMed (original) (raw)

Comparative Study

Comparison of the SUPERCARBA, CHROMagar KPC, and Brilliance CRE screening media for detection of Enterobacteriaceae with reduced susceptibility to carbapenems

Delphine Girlich et al. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2013 Feb.

Abstract

The recently developed SUPERCARBA medium was evaluated together with 2 commercially available selective culture media containing carbapenems: CHROMagar KPC (CHROMagar) and Brilliance CRE (Oxoid, Thermofisher Scientific). A total of 142 enterobacterial isolates were tested, including 131 isolates with reduced susceptibility to carbapenems. The SUPERCARBA medium has the highest sensitivity (96.5%) (detecting virtually all carbapenemase producers including OXA-48-like producers) as compared to Brilliance CRE (76.3%) and CHROMagar KPC (43%). The specificity of the screening media was similar, ranging from 57% to 68%.

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