Surveillance cultures for detection of rectal and lower respiratory tract carriage of colistin-resistant Gram-negative bacilli in intensive care unit patients: comparison of direct plating and pre-enrichment step.
CONCLUSION: The colonization rate among our ICU patients was 9.4 %. Based on our findings, the pre-enrichment step is necessary for the determination of ColR GNB carriage - even though the time to result takes an additional day, fewer than half of ColR GNB carriers were detected using the direct plating protocol.
PMID: 31237536 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Authors: Germ J, Cerar Kišek T, Kokošar Ulčar B, Lejko Zupanc T, Mrvič T, Kerin Povšič M, Seme K, Pirs M Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research
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