TABLE 3.
Summary of clinical isolate results, real-time PCR, and conventional PCR
| Carbapenemase | Total no. of positives by: |
Species isolated (no.) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real-time PCRa | Conventional PCRa | ||
| KPC | 9 | 9 | Klebsiella oxytoca (1) |
| K. pneumoniae (7) | |||
| Raoultella planticola (1) | |||
| NDM | 30 | 30 | Enterobacter cloacae (6) |
| E. coli (7) | |||
| K. oxytoca (1) | |||
| K. pneumoniae (16) | |||
| ΟXΑ-48 | 8 | 8 | E. coli (2) |
| K. pneumoniae (6) | |||
a
Two 2 K. pneumoniae isolates tested positive for multiple targets. Isolate 45 tested as KPC positive and NDM positive. Isolate 54 tested as NDM positive and OXA-48 positive. All other isolates tested positive for only 1 target.