Use of Directigen and acridine orange for rapid identification of human blood culture isolates.

AUTOR(ES)

Flejzor, B

RESUMO

Of 7,871 blood cultures from hospital patients, 22 yielded growth of Streptococcus pneumoniae or Haemophilus influenzae type b. The identities of 19 (86%) of these 22 strains could be verified after 18 to 24 h of incubation by application of the Directigen meningitis test kit to the unheated, uncentrifuged supernatant from the cultures; thus, the turnaround time for these cultures was halved. Growth in 16 (72%) of the Directigen-positive cultures was detected by visual inspection, and that in 3 (14%) of the cultures was detected by acridine orange staining. Growth in the three remaining bottles (14%) was detected by blind subculturing after 18 to 24 h or incubation and, therefore, was delayed by 24 h. The systematic application the acridine orange stain was helpful in 40 (44%) of 91 cases for which macroscopic inspection failed to reveal growth after 24 h of incubation.

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