H Nishiyama, H Shirayama, S Asami… - Lab …, 2011 - labmed.ascpjournals.org ... Most clinical microbiology laboratories today depend on the optochintest to identify pneumococci. However, there have been several reports of optochin-resistant pneumococci. Case Report: A 64-year-old man suffered from sepsis and had a large vegetation on the aortic valve. ...
[PDF] from sljol.infoL Karunanayake… - Ceylon Medical Journal, 2011 - sljol.info ... After 24-hour incubation, α-haemolytic colonies grew on blood agar and chocolate agar, with no growth on MacConkey agar. The gram stain of the culture revealed gram-positive diplococci. The optochintestOptochin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae ... Related articles - View as HTML - All 4 versions
LN Ikryannikova, KN Lapin, MV Malakhova… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2011 - Elsevier ... After that all isolates were stored at – 70 o C. Later they were re-inoculated, and a number of additional tests (bile solubility, latex agglutination by commercial “Slidex ® pneumo-kit” and repeated optochintest) were performed. ...
MF Prčre… - Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, 2011 - Elsevier ... Identification Card (bioMérieux Vitek) (Appelbaum et al., 1984), and the DNA-hybridization AccuProbe test (GeneProbe, San Diego, CA, USA). Routinely, the laboratory characterization of S. pneumoniae is based on a few tests, most frequently optochin susceptibility, capsular ... Related articles - All 4 versions