VRE Screen: VR1608-1: Negative; VR1608-2: Negative; VR1608-3: Positive; VR1608-4: Negative – Shipped August 15, 2016
Participants’ results
Challenge Expected Results Positive Negative
VR1608-1 Negative 13 (Acceptable)
VR1608-2 Negative 13 (Acceptable)
VR1608-3 VRE vanA positive, vanB negative 12 (Acceptable) 1 (Unacceptable)
VR1608-4 Negative 13 (Acceptable)
CMPT QC/QA/Statistics:
All samples were produced by CMPT. Samples were randomly selected for QC/QA. Statistics are not applicable in qualitative surveys. CMPT results are listed in the above table.
Samples VR1608-1, -2 and -4 were E. faecalis vanA & B negative, sample 3 was E. faecium vanA positive, but vanB negative. All samples were homogenous and stable for 20 days from the date of production, August 3, 2016.
CMPT is a program of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada.