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The Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol 43, Issue 1 72-74, Copyright © 1995 by Society for General Microbiology

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Identification of urinary pathogens by the RAPIDEC ur system

B. I. Batchelor
Public Health Laboratory, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.

A commercial method (RAPIDEC ur; bioMerieux UK Ltd, Basingstoke) and an in-house scheme based on conventional tests were compared for the identification of 179 commonly encountered gram-negative urinary pathogens. The methods identified correctly to genus level 97% and 84% of organisms, respectively. RAPIDEC ur was superior at identifying Escherichia coli, due to the detection of beta-glucuronidase activity, but less cost-effective than the in-house scheme.




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