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Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid disk synergy test and the modified carbapenem inactivation method
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Diagnostic Accuracy And Agreement Between Four Phenotypic Carbapenemase Detection Tests Among Enterobacterales, Fizza Farooqui, Seema Irfan, Sidra Laiq
Diagnostic Accuracy And Agreement Between Four Phenotypic Carbapenemase Detection Tests Among Enterobacterales, Fizza Farooqui, Seema Irfan, Sidra Laiq
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Introduction: Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CREs) are becoming increasingly popular as a cause of hospital-acquired infections that are difficult to treat and are frequently reported as causes of outbreaks in various hospitals. Conventional culturing techniques take at least 2 days to report a case as carbapenem resistant, and it is therefore important to detect such resistance mechanisms as early as possible.
Methods: This study aimed to compare the diagnostic performance of Carba NP, modified Hodge test (MHT), ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) disk synergy test (DST), and the modified carbapenem inactivation method (mCIM). This study was done at Microbiology Laboratory, Aga Khan University Hospital, …