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Evaluation of four qualitative methods for detection of beta-lactamase production in Staphylococcus and Micrococcus species

Petersson, A C ; Eliasson, Ingvar LU ; Kamme, C and Miörner, Håkan LU (1989) In European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 8(11). p.962-967
Abstract
Four qualitative methods for the detection of beta-lactamase production in Staphylococcus and Micrococcus species were evaluated and compared with a quantitative macroiodometric reference method. The disc diffusion test with penicillin G and the cloverleaf method could not separate beta-lactamase-positive from beta-lactamase-negative strains. Two applications of the chromogenic cephalosporin test, using uninduced strains and strains grown on blood agar plates, gave a large number of false negative and false positive results. False negative reactions were most common among uninduced strains, while the false positive reactions were most often recorded for Staphylococcus saprophyticus. A high degree of efficiency was recorded for the... (More)
Four qualitative methods for the detection of beta-lactamase production in Staphylococcus and Micrococcus species were evaluated and compared with a quantitative macroiodometric reference method. The disc diffusion test with penicillin G and the cloverleaf method could not separate beta-lactamase-positive from beta-lactamase-negative strains. Two applications of the chromogenic cephalosporin test, using uninduced strains and strains grown on blood agar plates, gave a large number of false negative and false positive results. False negative reactions were most common among uninduced strains, while the false positive reactions were most often recorded for Staphylococcus saprophyticus. A high degree of efficiency was recorded for the nitrocefin spot test, using induced strains grown on antibiotic susceptibility agar, and for the starch-iodine plate method. The starch-iodine plate with methicillin as inducer gave the most reliable results. (Less)
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  pages        = {{962--967}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  series       = {{European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases}},
  title        = {{Evaluation of four qualitative methods for detection of beta-lactamase production in Staphylococcus and Micrococcus species}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01967566}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/BF01967566}},
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