Application and Advantage Evaluation of VITEK 2 Fully Automatic Bacterial Identification Instrument in Clinical Microbiology
Objective:To review and analyze the identification process of 1900 strains in interlaboratory quality assessment and the evaluation of the application of VITEK2-Compact(also known as VITEK2-Compact system)in rare and difficult bacterial identification in clinical practice.Methods:VITEK2-Compactautomatic microbial detection system and conventional manual identification method were used to validate 95 strains.Results:The results showed that 95 of 128 strains were detected by VITEK2-Compact automatic microbial analysis system,and the total recognition rate was 96.9%.Compared with the conventional methods,the VITEK2-Compact automatic microbial analysis system has higher repeatability and stability,and the accuracy of biochemical identification for standard strains is 100%.Conclusion:VITEK2-Compact system has considerable limitations in clinical differential bacteria.But for rare and difficult species,we should use a variety of identification and comprehensive analysis methods to avoid mistaken.