Retrospective and prospective evaluation of the FluoroType ®-Mycobacteria VER 1.0 assay for the identification of mycobacteria from cultures in a French center

ConclusionThe good performance of the FluoroType ®-Mycobacteria-VER 1.0 kit with few major discrepancies could enable its use for first-line identification of positive mycobacteria cultures. However, an alternative identification method at least for reference laboratories is needed owing to the non-negligible proportion of NTM strains were iden tified at genus level.
Source: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - Category: Microbiology Source Type: research