What is it about?
Pilot study demonstrating potential of a simple, cheap test for detection of OXA-48 like carbapenemases
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Why is it important?
Detection of OXA-48 like carbapenemases is a difficult diagnostic challenge. Molecular tests can yield falsely positive results.
Perspectives
This study reports a potentially important set of observations. It is important to determine if our findings can be confirmed and extended by a larger study. Unfortunately our lab did not have a sufficiently large collection of relevant isolates to take this work further.
Dr Kenneth S Thomson
University of Louisville
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This page is a summary of: Indirect Tris-EDTA Disk Testing Using Imipenem and Meropenem for Detection of OXA-48 Carbapenemase Production, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2015, ASM Journals,
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.02094-15.
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