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The Carba NP test is a simple confirmation method for carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) but reagents have to be freshly prepared as imipenem sodium salt is unstable. We evaluated the Carba NP test performance based on a commercially available 10-fold cheaper drug formulation containing cilastatin against 217 CPE and 78 non-CPE isolates with reduced meropenem susceptibility. Specificity and sensitivity were 100 % and 98.6 %, respectively and 3 false negative results of blaVIM-1-producing Proteus mirabilis were reproducible with the RAPIDEC® Carba NP test. Cilastatin does not disturb test performance provided that the imipenem drug quantity is doubled.
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We would like to thank all Austrian microbiology laboratories for referring suspicious strains to the National Reference Laboratory for nosocomial infection and antimicrobial resistance (NRZ) in Linz and thus for providing a local basis strain collection of CPE to the NRZ.
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R. Hartl, S. Widhalm, H. Kerschner, P. Apfalter, and R. Gattringer declare that they have no competing interests.
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Hartl, R., Widhalm, S., Kerschner, H. et al. Cilastatin does not affect Carba NP test performance for detection of carbapenemase production in Enterobacteriaceae. Wien Klin Wochenschr 129, 29–32 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-016-1106-6
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