Evaluation of the LOGIC system for the rapid identification of members of the family Enterobacteriaceae in the clinical microbiology laboratory. |
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| Authors: | S R Pattyn J P Sion J Verhoeven |
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| Affiliation: | Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Edegem, Belgium. |
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| Abstract: | The LOGIC identification system (J.D. Perry, M. Ford, N. Hjersing, and F.K. Gould, J. Clin. Pathol. 41: 1010-1012, 1988) for gram-negative rods, performed with microdilution plates instead of tubes, was evaluated for strains isolated from all tested specimens except those obtained from stools (for which a different strategy was followed). Systematically extended with the oxidase test and lactose fermentation, it proved to be very reliable and extremely simple and economical. |
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