Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3347456 | Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease | 2011 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The Sirscan2000automatic MIC determination (SIR-MD) system is a new system for MIC determination based on the automatic detection of growth of bacteria spotted onto agar medium using a camera scan. To evaluate its accuracy, 3608 Streptococcus pneumoniae clinical isolates yielding 18,165 MICs were tested in parallel with the SIR-MD and a standard interpretive antibiogram procedure. The overall percent agreement between the 2 methods within 1 log2 dilution was 86.9%. After exclusion of the 11.8% noninterpretable results, errors in the deduction of susceptibilities were very major in 0.03%, major in 0.2%, and minor in 1.3%.
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Authors
Patrick Grohs, Claire Janoir, Sophie Grondin, Sylvie Simon, Gaëlle Bonnet, Laura Henry, Laurent Gutmann, Emmanuelle Varon,