Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 67, Issue 1 , Pages 9-14 , May 2010

Accuracy of 6 commercial systems for identifying clinical Aeromonas isolates

  • Brigitte Lamy

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalier du Bassin de Thau, Laboratoire de Biologie, Sète, France
    • colBVH, Collège de Bactériologie, Virologie et Hygiène des Hôpitaux généraux, le Chesnay, Cedex, France
    • Groupe d'étude Français sur les Aeromonas (GFA), Cedex, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Laboratoire de Biologie, Centre Hospitalier du Bassin de Thau, Boulevard Camille Blanc, 34207 Sète, France. Tel.: +33-0-4-67-46-57-82; fax: +33-0-4-67-46-59-84.
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  • Frédéric Laurent

      Affiliations

    • colBVH, Collège de Bactériologie, Virologie et Hygiène des Hôpitaux généraux, le Chesnay, Cedex, France
    • Groupe d'étude Français sur les Aeromonas (GFA), Cedex, France
    • Hospices Civils de Lyon, Laboratoire de Bactériologie de l'Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon, Cedex, France
    • INSERM U851, Université de Lyon, Lyon, Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Isabelle Verdier

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalier Antoine Fleyriat, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Bourg en Bresse, Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Jean-Winoc Decousser

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Antoine Béclère, Laboratoire de Microbiologie et d'hygiène, Clamart, France
    • ,
  • Evelyne Lecaillon

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalier St Jean, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Perpignan, France
    • ,
  • Hélène Marchandin

      Affiliations

    • Université Montpellier 1, EA 3755, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie-Contrôle microbiologique, Montpellier, Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Frédéric Roger

      Affiliations

    • Université Montpellier 1, EA 3755, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie-Contrôle microbiologique, Montpellier, Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Sylvestre Tigaud

      Affiliations

    • Hospices Civils de Lyon, Laboratoire de Bactériologie de l'Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon, Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Henri de Montclos

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalier Antoine Fleyriat, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Bourg en Bresse, Cedex, France
    • ,
  • the colBVH Study Group

      Affiliations

    • colBVH, Collège de Bactériologie, Virologie et Hygiène des Hôpitaux généraux, le Chesnay, Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Angeli Kodjo

      Affiliations

    • Groupe d'étude Français sur les Aeromonas (GFA), Cedex, France
    • Université de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5557 Ecologie microbienne, Université Lyon 1, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon, France

Received 3 July 2009 ,Accepted 11 December 2009.

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☆ The work described in this article was presented, in part, at the 18th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Barcelona, 2008).

PII: S0732-8893(09)00503-3

doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.12.012

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