BD Phoenix^™ panels

Microorganism identification

• The BD Phoenix^™ system offers identification-only panels and combination ID/AST panels, using 51 wells for identification substrates.
• The instrument can provide identification of most clinically significant Gram-negative and Gram- positive bacteria, as well as yeast.

Susceptibility testing

• The BD Phoenix^™ system offers 85 wells for antimicrobial dilutions on standard AST-only panels and combination ID/AST panels, and 136 wells on the BD Phoenix^™ Emerge^™ panel.
• The instrument can provide susceptibility results for most clinically significant Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria.
• The BD Phoenix^™ system panels test for several resistance markers* such as** :
  • Gram-positive bacteria
    • HLAR—High Level Aminoglycoside Resistant Enterococcus
    • iMLSb—Inducible Clindamycin Resistance
    • MRSA—based on Oxacillin Interpretation with Staphylococcus species
    • mecA - detection in mecA-mediated resistance Staphylococcus aureus
    • BL-Staphylococcus ß-Lactamase (Nitrocefin-based test)
    • VRSA—Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
    • VRE—based on Vancomycin interpretation
  • Gram-negative bacteria
    • CPO—Carbapenemase Producing Organism
    • ESBL—offered on Gram-negative panels and requires no additional disc diffusion or E-Test confirmation

* Depending on BD Phoenix^™ panel type and organism identification.

Detecting CPOs

• The BD Phoenix^™ CPO detect test, available on certain BD Phoenix^™ Gram-negative panels, provides information, including Ambler classification, to help guide clinicians in their treatment decisions.
• This test is available in two-panel configurations that allow microbiology labs to test for CPOs as part of routine susceptibility testing on BD Phoenix^™ panels:
  • 2-well configuration—provides detection of Carbapenemase-producing organisms in Enterobacterales, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii
  • 9-well configuration—provides detection of Carbapenemase-producing organisms and Ambler classification (A, B or D) in Enterobacterales, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii
• The BD Phoenix^™ CPO detect test is currently the only phenotypic test on an automated AST system that provides CPO detection and Ambler classification.
• On average, the BD Phoenix^™ CPO detect test detects and classifies CPOs from isolated colonies within 6 to 11 hours**.

**BD internal studies—data on file