Korean J Clin Microbiol.  2001 Mar;4(1):22-27.

Identification Results of Aerobic Gram-positive Bacteria Isolated from Blood Cultures Using BBL Crystal GP ID System

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Clinical Pathology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea. u931018@wonju.yonsei.ac.kr

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Although most of aerobic gram-positive bacilli have been considered to be contaminants, gram-positive bacilli should be identified to the species level if they are isolated from sterile body sites such as blood, and from adequately collected clinical specimens if they are the predominant organisms. However, identification of gram-positive bacilli are difficult due to the enormous diversity of these organisms and the small number of readily available commercial identification systems in clinical laboratories. Gram-positive bacilli and coccorods isolated from blood cultures were tested with BBL Crystal Gram-Positive (GP) Identification (ID) system in order to evaluate the system's usefulness of identifying these bacteria.
METHODS
Thirty-seven stock strains of aerobic gram-positive bacteria isolated from blood cultures between October 1998 and November 1999 at Wonju Christian Hospital were simultaneously tested by BBL Crystal GP ID system and API system. Three kinds of API system (API Coryne, API 50 CHB, and API 20 Strep) were tested according to gram stain results. Gram-positive bacilli or gram-positive coccorods consecutively isolated from blood cultures from May to November in 2000 were identified by BBL Crystal GP ID system.
RESULTS
Among the 37 stock strains of aerobic gram-positive bacteria, agreement rate of identification between Crystal GP ID system and API system were 88% to the genus level and 63% to the species level in Bacillus species, and 90% to the genus level in Corynebacterium species. The isolation rate of gram-positive bacteria from blood cultures from May to November in 2000 to the genus level were: Bacillus; 41.9%(18/43), Corynebacterium; 37.2%(16/43), and the other grampositive coccorods; 20.9%(9/43).
CONCLUSIONS
Crystal GP ID system is a useful identification system which, when combined with basic microbiological tests, should lead to satisfactory identification results for gram-positive bacteria isolated from blood cultures.

Keyword

Gram-positive bacilli; Gram-positive coccorod; Identification; Crystal GP ID System

MeSH Terms

Bacillus
Bacteria
Corynebacterium
Gangwon-do
Gram-Positive Bacteria*
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