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J Clin Pathol 55:524-529
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A comparison of the performance of cystine lactose electrolyte deficient (CLED) agar with Oxoid chromogenic urinary tract infection (CUTI) medium for the isolation and presumptive identification of organisms from urine

Table 6

CUTI presumptive identification (ID) summary

Organism Satisfactory ID (%) Further ID required (%) Total (%)
*Includes 1.3% non E coli (5 Citrobacter spp, 1 Klebsiella spp, 1 Hafnia spp); †pink + cephalexin resistant; ‡Proteus mirabilis − brown + indole negative; §non-pink; ¶brown indole positive.
Escherichia coli 73.4 (496/676)* 2.1 (14/676)§ 75.5
Citrobacter spp 0.9 (6/676)† 0.6 (4/676) 1.5
Klebsiella spp 0 6.5 (44/676) 6.5
Enterobacter spp 0 1.8 (12/676) 1.8
Serratia spp 0 0.9 (6/676) 0.9
Proteus spp 8.1 (55/676)‡ 1.9 (13/676)¶ 10.0
Pseudomonas spp 3.8 (26/676) 0 3.8
86.2 13.8 100.0

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