Southern California Permanente Medical Group

1 article published in JoVE

• Immunology and Infection

  
  A 1.5 Hour Procedure for Identification of Enterococcus Species Directly from Blood Cultures Margie A. Morgan¹, Elizabeth Marlowe², Susan Novak-Weekly², J.M. Miller², T.M. Painter³, Hossein Salimnia³, Benjamin Crystal^{4 1}Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Cente, ²Pasadena, CA, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, ³Detroit, Detroit Medical Center, ⁴Woburn, MA, AdvanDx A rapid protocol for the direct identification of Enterococcus faecalis and other Enterococcus species from a positive blood culture using a Peptide Nucleic Acid fluorescent in situ hybridization assay (PNA FISH).