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BD BBL Vancomycin Screen Agar Catalog number 222204 Vancomycin Screen Agar is used to test enterococci for resistance to vancomycin and to predict the synergistic activity of this antimicrobial with an aminoglycoside antimicrobial.
- Recall number
- Z-2628-2014
- Initiated
- July 28, 2014
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recalling firm
- Becton Dickinson & Co.
- Quantity
- 28540
App-derived interpretation
These lots of Agar may have exhibited breakthrough growth of vancomycin susceptible Enterococcus species control organisms. Agar that allows susceptible enterococci to grow appears as a falsely resistant culture. If a lab does not QC, the error would be identified as falsely resistant enterococci would have further AST workup. There could be a delay in the identification of false-resistance
Official device-enrichment evidence · Unknown
An exact joined enrichment record exists, but none supplies supported root-cause wording. This is not an FDA finding of an unknown cause.
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Reason for recall
These lots of Agar may have exhibited breakthrough growth of vancomycin susceptible Enterococcus species control organisms. Agar that allows susceptible enterococci to grow appears as a falsely resistant culture. If a lab does not QC, the error would be identified as falsely resistant enterococci would have further AST workup. There could be a delay in the identification of false-resistance
Code information
Lot numbers - 4080291 4042217 4048040 4052349 4058242 4073274 4127728
Distribution pattern
Worldwide Distribution: US (Nationwide) including the states of AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI and WV; and Internationally to the countries of Belgium, Canada, Colombia, India, Mexico, Singapore and Taiwan.