Thermo Scientific™ Remel™ BHI Agar with Vancomycin

Description

• Detect vancomycin-resistant enterococci with Thermo Scientific™ Remel™ Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) Agar with Vancomycin
• Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) Agar with Vancomycin is used for screening of enterococci resistant to vancomycin and is recommended by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) as a reliable method for the detection of all phenotypes of vancomycin-resistant enterococci 1,2
• Vancomycin-resistant enterococci were first recognized in Europe and the United States in the late 1980s
• Since then they are now being recovered with increasing frequency 3
• Various phenotypes responsible for acquired resistance in enterococci have been described with high to low vancomycin resistance and cross-resistance to teicoplanin 4
• Detection has been difficult due to failure of commonly used susceptibility methods to identify those isolates with low-level resistance 5
• An Agar screen test with BHI Agar supplemented with 6μg/ml of vancomycin has been recommended by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) as a reliable method for the detection of all phenotypes of vancomycin-resistant enterococci 1,2
• Recommended by the CLSI as a reliable method for the detection of all phenotypes of vancomycin-resistant enterococci 1,2 Ready-to-use convenience of prepared media
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• Remel™ and Oxoid™ products are now part of the Thermo Scientific brand.