Researchers
from Oregon State Public Health Lab have modified the protocol for a relatively
new test for a dangerous form of antibiotic resistance, increasing its
specificity to 100 percent. Their research, confirming the reliability of a
test that can provide results in hours and is simple and inexpensive enough to
be conducted in practically any clinical laboratory was presented at the 54th
Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, an infectious
disease meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.
The
test, called Carba NP, originally developed by Patrice Nordmann and Laurent
Poirel at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Laurent Dortet of the
University Hospital of the South-Paris Medical School, France, allows for rapid
identification of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE).
Posted by Tim Sandle
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