A multi-centre prospective evaluation of the Check-Direct ESBL Screen for BD MAX as a rapid molecular screening method for extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae rectal carriage

Five-Hour Detection of Intestinal Colonization with Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae Using the β-Lacta Phenotypic Test: the BLESSED Study

“…Consequently, such a protocol is much less expensive than molecular techniques and requires less material, which allows it to be used anywhere regardless of the level of equipment in the laboratory. Moreover, current molecular techniques have not shown better diagnostic performances than those reported for the BLESSED protocol in this study ( 16 , 33 ).…”

Analysis of Clinical Isolates of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Bacteria with Primer and Probe Sets Developed to Detect <i>bla</i>_CTX-M, <i>bla</i>_TEM, and <i>bla</i>_SHV Using a Fully Automated Gene Detection System

“…BD MAX TM (Nippon Becton Dickinson, Tokyo, Japan) can extract, purify, amplify, and detect nucleotides in 24 different bacterial specimens at a time and perform fully automated data analysis within approximately 3 h. This machine can detect multiple target genes within a single sample using multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology (6)(7)(8). Assay systems based on BD MAX TM are used for various purposes, including tests for MRSA (9), Clostridioides difficile (10), norovirus (11), measles (12), and enteric or vaginal infective pathogens (10,11,13).…”