EVALUATION OF THE BAXTER-MICROSCAN 4-HOUR ENZYME-BASED YEAST IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM

摘要: A new 4-h Yeast Identification Panel (YIP; Baxter-MicroScan, W. Sacramento, Calif.) was compared with the API 20C System (Analytab Products, Inc., Plainview, N.Y.) in identification of recent clinical yeast isolates. The YIP had a 94% correlation (288 306) identifying 22 species within genera Candida, Hansenula, Pichia, Rhodotorula, Saccharomyces, and Torulopsis. Correlation dropped to 65% for those slower growing yeasts, i.e., Blastoschizomyces spp., Crpytococcus Geotrichum Hyphopichia Phaeococcomyces Prototheca Trichosporon spp. Overall 92% (365 401) taxa included data base 85% (373 437) all yeasts encountered study. There were 36 (8.2%) discrepant identifications, which due part limited base. Expansion plus easy inoculation, reading, rapid results should make it an excellent method identification.