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Identification of Candida auris by Use of the Updated Vitek 2 Yeast Identification System, Version 8.01: a Multilaboratory Evaluation Study

Georges Ambaraghassi, Philippe J. Dufresne, Simon F. Dufresne, Émilie Vallières, José F. Muñoz, Christina A. Cuomo, Elizabeth L. Berkow, Shawn R. Lockhart, Me‐Linh Luong

Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 2019 · 90 citations · 23 references

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Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant yeast that has been systematically incorrectly identified by phenotypic methods in clinical microbiology laboratories. The Vitek 2 automated identification system (bioMérieux) recently included C. auris in its database (version 8.01). We evaluated the performance of the Vitek 2 YST ID card to identify C. auris and related species.

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