Volume 20, Number 3—March 2014
Dispatch
Nontoxigenic tox-bearing Corynebacterium ulcerans Infection among Game Animals, Germany
, Peter Kutzer, Martin Peters, Andreas Sing, Matthias Contzen, and Jörg Rau
Table 2
Variable biochemical characteristics of API Coryne and VITEK2-compact profiles(bioMérieux, Nürtingen, Germany) of 13 Corynebacterium ulcerans field strains from game animals, Germany*
| Isolate ID | Ability of isolate to metabolize carbohydrate |
API Coryne profile (interpretation/% ID) | VITEK2 CBC profile (interpretation/%) | VITEK2 ANC profile (interpretation)† | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maltose | Mannitol | Sucrose | Trehalose | Xylose | ||||
| Bu125/97 | − | − | − | + | − | 0 011 324 (Cps/99.5) | 01030140402010 (Cps/96) | 2123020000405 (Cul, Cje) |
| CVUAS 4292 | + | − | + | + | + | 0 041 725 (invalid) | 01030140406010 (Cps, Cdi/ -) | 2123020000405 (Cul, Cje) |
| CVUAS 5160 | − | + | − | + | + | 0 001 304 (Cps/97.5) | 01030140402010 (Cps/ 96) | 2123020000405 (Cul, Cje/) |
| CVUAS 6455 | − | + | + | + | − | 5 153 325 (invalid) | 01030140402010 (Cps/ 96) | 2123020000405 (Cul, Cje) |
| 10–7-D-00025 | − | − | − | + | − | 0 011 324 (Cps/99.5) | 01030140402010 (Cps/ 96) | 2123020000405 (Cul, Cje) |
| 11USF28 | − | + | − | + | + | 0 011 324 (Cps/99.5) | 01030140402010 (Cps/ 96) | 2123020000405 (Cul, Cje) |
| 11USF53 | − | − | − | + | − | 0 011 324 (Cps/99.5) | 01030140402010 (Cps/ 96) | 2123020000405 (Cul, Cje) |
| 11USF78 | − | − | − | + | − | 0 011 324 (Cps/99.5) | 01030140402010 (Cps 96) | 2123020000405 (Cdi, Cje) |
| 11USF79 | + | − | − | + | − | 0 011 324 (Cps/99.5) | 01030140402010 (Cps/ 96) | 2123020000405 (Cul, Cje) |
| 121017479 | − | − | − | − | − | 0 011 324 (Cps/99.5) | 01430140402010 (Cps/ 92) | 2123020000405 (Cul, Cje) |
| S1627/5/12 | − | − | − | + | − | 0 001 324 (Cps/99.9) | 01030140402010 (Cps/ 96) | 2123020000405 (Cul, Cje) |
| S28/3/13 | − | − | − | + (weak) | + | 0 111 324 (Cps/92.7, Cul/7.2) | 01020140402010 (Cps, Cma/ -) | 2123020000405 (Cul, Cje) |
| 131000349 | − | − | − | + (weak) | + | 0 011 324 (Cps/99.5) | 01030140402010 (Cps/ 96) | 2123020000405 (Cul, Cje) |
*% ID, probability of identification according to the evaluation by the manufacturer; CBC, coryneform bacteria; ANC, Corynebacterium and anaerobes; Cps, C. pseudotuberculosis; Cul, C. ulcerans; Cdi, C. diphtheriae; Cje, C. jeikeium; Cma, C. macginleyi.
†Probability of identification was not provided by the manufacturer for cases in which test results identified 2 organisms.
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