Identification of nonfermenters is not the easiest thing in the world.
The API 20 NE has been around for a long time. Jorge makes a good point
in that this kit is for clinical isolates and not necessarily
environmental isolates. It doesn't always work that well on clinical
isolates. We use is as a backup for our Vitek Legacy, although we just
went live with Vitek2. It remains to be seen whether V2 does a better
job with this group than Vitek Legacy.
These are not necessarily a group of organisms that lend themselves to a
couple of identification tests.
Judy Dilworth, M.T.(ASCP)
Microbiology
"Jorge" <jorge1907 from aol.com> wrote in message
news:aaf3dff7-16e2-4551-8d53-4ee4b9e2cc86 from f3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>> API was developed with clinical isolates and was validated and
> verified 20 ways to sunday. Even in this, it is not always s accurate
> for id of environmental isolates. Please don't consider
> identification a trivial exercise of combining a small set of simple
> tests.
