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Five test-kits—API, AuxoTab, Enterotube, PathoTec and R/B-have been compared for accuracy in individual tests and for identification on the genus or species level with conventional biochemical tests on 329 strains belonging toEnterobacteriaceae. The API system was found to be the most reliable followed by Enterotube, R/B, PathoTec and AuxoTab. The API system was used in parallel with the standard biochemical testing in the routine bacteriological work for identification of aerobic gramnegative fermentative rods from clinical specimens during a 10 weeks period. 2351 of 2404 strains were identified with this system and the system was found to be very reliable.
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Nord, CE., Lindberg, A.A. & DahlbÄck, A. Evaluation of five test-kits —API, AuxoTab, Enterotube, PathoTec and R/B— for identification ofEnterobacteriaceae . Med Microbiol Immunol 159, 211–220 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02121337
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