| Abstract: | The aim of the study was the assessment of the usefulness of commercially available systems for rapid identification of staphylococci. API STAPH (bioMerieux, France), ID 32 STAPH (bioMerieux, France), GPL (HTL, Poland) and Staph-Zym (Rosco, Denmark). The identifications were carried out according to producer's instruction. The material for the study comprised 76 staphylococcal strains, coagulase-positive and coagulase-negative. The strains were isolated from throat, nasal, wound, bone slivers, pus and blood of inpatients and from throat and nasal swabs of outpatients. Besides that, for the study staphylococcal strains were obtained from the American Collection of Typical Cultures (ATCC) and from the Polish Collection of Microorganisms (PCM). All tested strains were identified on the basis of classic biochemical tests. In the light of obtained results it is concluded that the commercial system most suitable for identification of staphylococci was ID 32 STAPH (bioMerieux), which has a wide spectrum of species identifiable with it and the highest percent (95%) of correctly identified species. The least suitable system was the GPL 15 (HTL, Poland). |
