It was reported that pos combo 33 panel, lot 2016-05-04 resulted to high probability misidentification of staphylococcus aureus as s.Intermedius.The pyrrolidonyl-b-naphthylamide (pyr) resulted in positive, however the pyr panel well reaction should have been negative, according to the customer's alternate method.Visual verification of the pyr panel well confirmed the positive result.The isolate was not sent to a reference laboratory for confirmatory testing, rather the reported isolate misidentification was based on the customer's alternate method i.E.Latex agglutination test.There were no erroneous results reported out of the laboratory.
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