API System: a Multitube Micromethod for Identification of Enterobacteriaceae

Open Access

1 January 1972

journal article
Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied Microbiology

Vol. 24 (3), 449-452
https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.24.3.449-452.1972

Abstract

The API system for identification of Enterobacteriaceae was evaluated with 366 cultures. Overall accuracy of identification was 96.4%; of the 13 cultures misidentified, 7 were atypical strains.

Keywords

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE
MICROMETHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION
ATYPICAL
MISIDENTIFIED
MULTITUBE MICROMETHOD
API SYSTEM

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