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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2007, p. 1343-1346, Vol. 45, No. 4
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.02469-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Evaluation of VITEK 2 and RapID Yeast Plus Systems for Yeast Species Identification: Experience at a Large Clinical Microbiology Laboratory{triangledown}

Maurizio Sanguinetti,* Rosaria Porta, Michela Sali, Marilena La Sorda, Giovanni Pecorini, Giovanni Fadda, and Brunella Posteraro

Istituto di Microbiologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Received 10 December 2006/ Returned for modification 18 January 2007/ Accepted 26 January 2007

A total of 750 clinical yeast isolates were evaluated by two identification systems, VITEK 2 and RapID Yeast Plus, using sequence analysis of the rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer regions as the reference method. The VITEK 2 and RapID systems correctly identified 737 (98.2%) and 716 (95.5%) isolates, respectively.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Istituto di Microbiologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo F. Vito, 1-00168 Rome, Italy. Phone: 39 6 30154218. Fax: 39 6 3051152. E-mail: msanguinetti{at}rm.unicatt.it

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 7 February 2007.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2007, p. 1343-1346, Vol. 45, No. 4
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.02469-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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