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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2005, p. 942-944, Vol. 43, No. 2
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.2.942-944.2005
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Evaluation of Etest MBL for Detection of bla_IMP-1 and bla_VIM-2 Allele-Positive Clinical Isolates of Pseudomonas spp. and Acinetobacter spp.

Department of Laboratory Medicine, Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, and BK21 Medical Sciences, Yonsei, University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea,¹ AB BIODISK, Solna, Sweden²

Received 11 June 2004/ Returned for modification 18 July 2004/ Accepted 7 October 2004

The Etest MBL (AB BIODISK, Solna, Sweden) correctly differentiated all 57 isolates of Acinetobacter spp. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa with the bla_IMP-1 allele and 135 of 137 (98.5%) Acinetobacter spp. and Pseudomonas spp. isolates with the bla_VIM-2 allele. The Etest MBL was reliable for detecting the IMP-1- and VIM-2-producing Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter isolates.

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