Evaluation of VITEK 2 and RapID yeast plus systems for yeast species identification: experience at a large clinical microbiology laboratory

Authors :: Brunella Posteraro
Michela Sali
Maurizio Sanguinetti
Giovanni Fadda
Marilena La Sorda
Giovanni Pecorini
Rosaria Porta
Source :: Journal of clinical microbiology. 45(4)
Publication Year :: 2007
Abstract: A total of 750 clinical yeast isolates were evaluated by two identification systems, VITEK 2 and RapID Yeast Plus, using sequence analysis of the rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer regions as the reference method. The VITEK 2 and RapID systems correctly identified 737 (98.2%) and 716 (95.5%) isolates, respectively.

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