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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2002, p. 1085-1087, Vol. 40, No. 3
0095-1137/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.3.1085-1087.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Biochemical and Susceptibility Tests Useful for Identification of Nonfermenting Gram-Negative Rods

Microbiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Louvain, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium

Received 21 June 2001/ Returned for modification 23 October 2001/ Accepted 10 December 2001

Six hundred nineteen strains of nonfermenting gram-negative rods were tested for alkaline phosphatase, benzyl-arginine arylamidase, pyrrolidonyl arylamidase, ethylene glycol acidification, and susceptibility to desferrioxamine and colistin. The results were highly discriminant. Therefore, the proposed tests may be helpful for the identification of this group of organisms.

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