Limitation of Staphylococcus Spp Test Kit ATB STAPH 5 from BioMerieux in Clinical Applcation / 现代检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the limitation analysis of Staphylococcus spp Susceptibility Test Kit ATB STAPH 5 from Bi-oMerieux in clinical application and to propose remedy.Methods The coverage area and break point of antibiotics ATB STAPH 5 from BioMerieux were analysed by using CLSI M100-S23 as standard.Results The kit ATB STAPH 5 did not include chloromycetin,oxazolidinones and lipopeptide three antibiotics that were recommend by CLSI.The 16 kinds of antibi-otics break point in the kit ATB STAPH 5 were all not inconsistent or did not contain with the standard of CLSI M100-S23. It may lead to error drug sensitivity tests,false sensitive or false drug resistance.Conclusion Only using this kit ATB STAPH 5 for Staphylococcus spp ,it may occurre errors or mistakes.Other experiments must be corrected before the re-port.