Enterococcus faecalis (Andrewes and Horder) Schleifer and Kilpper-Balz
Designations:
NJ-3
Isolation:
Peritoneal fluid, St. Louis, MO
Depositor:
FC Tenover
History:
ATCC <<--FC Tenover<<--J. Hoppe-Bauer
Biosafety Level:
2
Shipped:
freeze-dried
Growth Conditions:
ATCC medium2174: Brain heart infusion medium with vancomycin 4 mcg/ml
Temperature: 35.0°C
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Genotype:
vanB ant(6)-I aac(6') aph(2"")
Applications:
quality control strain [92138] [92160]
susceptibility disc testing [21523]
susceptibility testing [21525] [21533] [90283]
Low-level vancomycin-resistant, VanB [10587]
References:
10587: Tenover FC, et al. Ability of clinical laboratories to detect antimicrobial agent- resistant enterococci [published erratum appears in J. Clin. Microbiol. 31: 3081, 1993]. J. Clin. Microbiol. 31: 1695-1699, 1993. PubMed: 8349745
10605: Swenson JM, et al. Molecular characterization and multilaboratory evaluation of Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 51299 for quality control of screening tests for vancomycin and high-level aminoglycoside resistance in enterococci. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33: 3019-3021, 1995. PubMed: 8576364
21523: Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Tests; Approved Standard - 9th Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M2-A9.
21525: Methods for Dilution Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria that Grow Aerobically; Approved Standard - 7th Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M7-A8.
21533: Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk and Dilution Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria Isolated from Animals; Approved Standard - 2nd Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M31-A3.
90283: Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; Sixteenth Informational Supplement. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M100-S20, 2007
