Note: Discussion and illustration of the API-20E system here does not necessarily constitute any commercial endorsement of this product. It is shown in our laboratory courses as a prime example of a convenient multi-purpose testing method one may encounter out there in the "real world."
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The API 20E system consists of a plastic strip of 20 individual, miniaturized tests tubes (cupules) each containing a different reagent used to determine the metabolic capabilities, and, ultimately, the genus and species of enteric bacteria in the family Enterobacteraceae.
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The API 20E system for Enterobacteriaceae, recently broadened to include identification of nonfermentative gram-negative bacteria, was evaluated and ...
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you can check that the suspension you are using in your api test is not contaminated by plating out purity plates. ... yo, could anyone here plz help me out with the last part of the API 20E test... the Nitrate Reduction GLU tube. MOB, McC, OF-F OF-O; what exactly am i supposed to do? thn ... API 20E System - (Apr/26/2006 )
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The API 20E strip accurately identified 96% of the veterinary isolates and misidentified 3%. Identifications by the API system and the diagnostic laboratories were in agreement in 85% of the isolates, disagreement on 16% of the isolates, and 1% were not identified by the API strip.
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The ability of the API 20E system to identify 105 clinical isolates of Yersinia spp. was ... identified successfully by the API 20E system. In our study, ...
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Bachelors Degrees question: What are the results for Api 20E system Ecoli? 7144542 ... Discuss the question "What are the results for Api 20E system Ecoli?"
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Its identification system was compared with the API 20E kit. When the computer generated identification manuals for each of the systems were used 99.5% of the 190 strains tested were identified. Of these identifications 98.4% were identical.
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Since the introduction of the API 20E kit a number of identification schemes have been developed by the manufacturer for use with the kit. We evaluated the success of these various ... Many of the strains were atypical and only 94% could be identified by our own system of 50 conventional tests and a computer program.
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One hundred strains were referred to us for identification because they apparently could not be identified satisfactorily with the API 20E system (appareils et procédés d'identification). The inability to identify 31 strains was due primarily to failure to follow the manufacturer's instructions.
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