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: Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research