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. 1986 Feb;23(2):251–257. doi: 10.1128/jcm.23.2.251-257.1986

Critical evaluation of the AutoMicrobic system gram-negative identification card for identification of glucose-nonfermenting gram-negative rods.

J J Plorde, J A Gates, L G Carlson, F C Tenover
PMCID: PMC268622  PMID: 3517050

Abstract

During a 6-month study we critically evaluated the accuracy of the AutoMicrobic system Gram-Negative Identification Card (Vitek Systems, Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.) in identifying glucose-nonfermenting gram-negative bacilli by testing 419 selected isolates in parallel with a conventional reference method. Of 356 isolates included in the AutoMicrobic system profile, a total of 307 (86.2%) were correctly identified, 36 (10.1%) were not identified, and 13 (3.7%) were misidentified. Fifty-eight of 63 (92%) isolates not included in the profile were correctly reported as "unidentified organisms." Overall, if the first-choice identification was always accepted, only 18 (4.3%) isolates would have been incorrectly reported. When first-choice identifications appended with the special message "questionable biopattern" were rejected, and organisms were screened for characteristic odor and antimicrobial susceptibility before final acceptance of the AutoMicrobic system report, the number of misidentifications was reduced to 5 (1.2%). The average time to identification with the AutoMicrobic system Gram-Negative Identification Card was 15 h. This compares favorably with the 65 h required by the reference method.

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