Université de Fribourg

Detection of colistin-resistant Gram-negative rods by using the SuperPolymyxin medium

Jayol, Aurélie ; Poirel, Laurent ; André, Catherine ; Dubois, Véronique ; Nordmann, Patrice

In: Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 2018, vol. 92, no. 2, p. 95–101

The commercial SuperPolymyxin medium (ELITechGroup, Puteaux, France), currently licensed in Europe, is aimed to screen for either intrinsic or acquired colistin resistance in Gram negatives. It was tested for screening colistin-resistant Gram- negative rods from bacterial cultures of 145 colistin-resistant and 86 colistin- susceptible Gram-negative rods isolates. It exhibited a sensitivity and...

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Evaluation of three broth microdilution systems to determine colistin susceptibility of Gram-negative bacilli

Jayol, Aurélie ; Nordmann, Patrice ; André, Catherine ; Poirel, Laurent ; Dubois, Véronique

In: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2018, p. -

The broth microdilution (BMD) method is currently the recommended technique to determine susceptibility to colistin.Objectives: We evaluated the accuracy of three commercialized BMD panels [Sensititre (ThermoFisher Diagnostics), UMIC (Biocentric) and MicroScan (Beckman Coulter)] to determine colistin susceptibility.Methods: A collection of 185 isolates of Gram-negative bacilli (133 colistin...