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. 1983 Sep;18(3):472–475. doi: 10.1128/jcm.18.3.472-475.1983

Rapid species identification and biotyping of respiratory isolates of Haemophilus spp.

J S Matthews, J A Reynolds, D E Weesner, J L Perry, A L Jenkins
PMCID: PMC270836  PMID: 6630435

Abstract

Three commercially available systems, the 4-h Minitek Enterobacteriaceae III, the Haemophilus Trio-Tube, and the Micro-ID, were evaluated for their capacities to identify and biotype 308 respiratory isolates of Haemophilus spp. When compared with aminolevulinic acid test results, the definitive identification method used in this study, these systems demonstrated no significant differences in their capacities to differentiate Haemophilus influenzae from Haemophilus parainfluenzae. They were in agreement with the standard method of species identification approximately 50% of the time. When sucrose was added to the Minitek and Trio-Tube configurations, the efficiency rate of species identification increased to more than 95%. The Micro-ID could not be modified to incorporate this additional biochemical parameter. The performance of the sucrose-supplemented Minitek and Trio-Tube systems, compared to the combined results of Micro-ID and aminolevulinic acid, produced correlations of 94 and 90%, respectively. Rapid and accurate methodologies are available for combined species identification and biotyping of Haemophilus spp.

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