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Meropenem/colistin synergy testing for multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains by a two-dimensional gradient technique applicable in routine microbiology

van Belkum, Alex ; Halimi, Diane ; Bonetti, Eve-Julie ; Renzi, Gesuele ; Cherkaoui, Abdessalam ; Sauvonnet, Véronique ; Martelin, Roland ; Durand, Géraldine ; Chatellier, Sonia ; Zambardi, Gilles ; Engelhardt, Anette ; Karlsson, Åsa ; Schrenzel, Jacques

In: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2015, vol. 70, no. 1, p. 167-172

Evaluation of Etest® strips for detection of KPC and metallo-carbapenemases in Enterobacteriaceae

Girlich, Delphine ; Halimi, Diane ; Zambardi, Gilles ; Nordmann, Patrice

In: Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 2013, vol. 77, no. 3, p. 200–201

The performance of Etest KPC and MBL strips (bioMérieux) was evaluated as compared to other phenotypic tests for detecting carbapenemases of the KPC-type and metallo-β-lactamases, respectively, on 133 well-characterized enterobacterial isolates. KPC and meropenem-containing MP/MPI Etest had high sensitivity (>92 %) and specificity (>97 %).

Comparative evaluation of a novel chromogenic medium (chromID OXA-48) for detection of OXA-48 producing Enterobacteriaceae

Girlich, Delphine ; Anglade, Claire ; Zambardi, Gilles ; Nordmann, Patrice

In: Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 2014, vol. 77, no. 4, p. 296–300

Comparative evaluation of the recently developed chromogenic culture medium chromID OXA-48 (bioMérieux) with chromID CARBA (bioMérieux) and SUPERCARBA showed that chromID OXA-48 and SUPERCARBA media have the highest sensitivity for detection of OXA-48 producing Enterobacteriaceae (91% and 93%) comparatively to chromID CARBA (21 %). The chromID OXA-48 has the highest specificity, with 100%, as...