A case of wound dual infection with Pasteurella dagmatis and Pasteurella Canis resulting from a dog bite - limitations of Vitek-2 system in exact identification of Pasteurella species

Table 2 Identification results obtained with Vitek 2 GN cards and ID-Test HN20 rapid panels compared with those by 16S rRNA analyses.

	16S rRNA	Vitek 2 (GN card)	ID-test(HN-20rapid)
Strain-A*	Pasteurella dagmatis (559/559 bp; Homology 100%)	Pasteurella pneumotropica (Probability of 91.3%, 8 h) Good Identification	Pasteurella dagmatis Profile No. 7517552 100%
Strain-B*	Pasteurella canis (540/541 bp; Homology 99.8%)	Pasteurella canis (Probability 99.0%, 7 h) Excellent Identification	Pasteurella multocid Profile No. 7605152 100%
Strain-C	Pasteurella canis (409/409 bp; Homology 100%)	Pasteurella canis (Probability 99.0%, 7 h) Excellent Identification	Pasteurella multocida Profile No. 7615552 100%

*: See text in Microbiological Properties of the Isolates for the origins and the backgrounds of respective isolate.

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