Update and evaluation of the AutoMicrobic yeast identification system.

摘要: The AutoMicrobic system (AMS) Yeast Biochemical Card (Vitek Systems Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.) is a which has been designed for rapid and automated reporting of yeast identification in the clinical laboratory. Recent improvements have implemented AMS data base to expand enhance its capabilities. These include addition seven biotypes, changes analysis scheme, construction taxonomic keys. updated was compared with API 20C (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.) conventional method, using 1,106 stock isolates. With these improvements, had correlation 98.8% 93.4% method significantly increased capability identifying Cryptococcus neoformans (98%). most difficult organisms identify 22 24 h were terreus (58%) uniguttulatus (73%). not only provided more results comparable other two systems but gave substantial savings set-up time as well.