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. 2008 Dec 24;47(2):358–361. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01687-08

TABLE 3.

Correlation between phenotypic methods and gene amplification for detection of ESBLs

ESBL PCR resulta No. of samples
Total Phenotypic ESBL method
Etest
Phoenix
Disk augmentation
+ NDb + +
+ 7 2 0 5 4 3 6 1
19 0 1 18 5 14 9 10
Total 26 2 1 23 9 17 15 11
a

Excluding TEM-1.

b

ND, nondeterminable.