Evaluation of Two Phenotypic Screening Tests for Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae

Alix Pantel (1, 2) , Dimitri Souzy (2) , Albert Sotto (1, 2) , Jean-Philippe Lavigne (1, 2)

1 VBMI - Virulence bactérienne et maladies infectieuses
2 CHU Nîmes - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes

We evaluated the performance of two rapid tests for detection of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) strains. The sensitivities and the specificities were 97.6% and 94.4% for the Rapid CARB Screen and 98.8% and 93.1% for the KPC/MBL & OXA-48 Confirm tests, providing the usefulness of these tools for screening CPE in microbiology wards.

Domaines: Microbiologie et Parasitologie

Alix Pantel, Dimitri Souzy, Albert Sotto, Jean-Philippe Lavigne. Evaluation of Two Phenotypic Screening Tests for Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2015, 53 (10), pp.3359 - 3362. ⟨10.1128/JCM.01211-15⟩. ⟨hal-01913526⟩