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COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE VITEK2 AND THE API 20 STEP REGARDING THE IDENTIFICATION OF MEDICALLY RELEVANT STREPTOCOCCI.

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

Abstract

Background and aim of study: The current study aims to compare between the Vitek2 GP ID BioMérieux® cards and the API 20 Strep BioMérieux® regarding the identification of medically relevant Streptococci. Methods: This was a Cross sectional descriptive study that took place at the Central Microbiology Laboratory, Clinical Pathology Department, Ain Shams University Hospitals from August 2021 to February 2022. A Total 50 Medically relevant isolates of Streptococci recovered from different clinical samples were subjected to species identification using The API 20 Strep and the VITEK2 system using GP ID card. Results: A statistically excellent agreement (%) = 45/50 = 90%; Disagreement (%) = 5/50= 10% was observed between VITEK® 2 system and the API 20 Strep method regarding identification results of the Streptococci spp. with (Kappa = 0.90 and p-value <0.001). Conclusions: VITEK® 2 shows a very good and trustable accuracy and has dominate advantages in identification time as compared to manual API microsystems in clinical lab.

DOI

10.21608/asmj.2024.259440.1194

Keywords

Streptococci, VITEK2, API 20 Strep

Authors

First Name

Merna

Last Name

Abd El Atty

MiddleName

Hassan

Affiliation

clinical pathology, faculty of medicine, Ain shams university, cairo , Egypt

Email

hassanmerna3@gmail.com

City

cairo

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First Name

Hala

Last Name

Hafez

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

clinical pathology. faculty of medicine, Ain shams university, cairo,Egypt

Email

dr.hmhafez68@gmail.com

City

cairo

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First Name

Maha

Last Name

Anwar

MiddleName

Ahmad

Affiliation

clinical pathology. faculty of medicine, Ain shams university, cairo,Egypt

Email

drmahaanwer83@gmail.com

City

cairo

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-

Volume

75

Article Issue

2

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49003

Issue Date

2024-06-01

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2024-01-22

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2024-06-01

Page Start

323

Page End

330

Print ISSN

0002-2144

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2735-3540

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1,311

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Ain Shams Medical Journal

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https://asmj.journals.ekb.eg/

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COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE VITEK2 AND THE API 20 STEP REGARDING THE IDENTIFICATION OF MEDICALLY RELEVANT STREPTOCOCCI.

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26 Dec 2024