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Vitek® 2 systems
Official notice
21 Jan 2026
Last checked
21 Jan 2026
An official Health Canada notice concerns Vitek® 2 systems. BioMérieux identified increased out-of-range high quality control results for the following antibiotic formulations: ceftazidime/avibactam (CZA02n), imipenem (IPM05n), imipenem/relebactam (IPR01n), meropenem/vaborbactam (MEV01n), and polymyxin B (PB02n), as well as reports of false resistance on VITEK® 2 GN-AST Cards when testing Enterobacterales/Enterobacteriaceae and P. Aeruginosa. Published 2026-01-21.
What to do now
BioMérieux recommends confirmatory testing of resistant results for Enterobacterales/Enterobacteriaceae and P. Aeruginosa on VITEK® 2 GN-AST cards for select antibiotics.
Recall number
81506
Official notice
2026-01-21
The hazard
The hazard
BioMérieux identified increased out-of-range high quality control results for the following antibiotic formulations: ceftazidime/avibactam (CZA02n), imipenem (IPM05n), imipenem/relebactam (IPR01n), meropenem/vaborbactam (MEV01n), and polymyxin B (PB02n), as well as reports of false resistance on VITEK® 2 GN-AST Cards when testing Enterobacterales/Enterobacteriaceae and P. Aeruginosa.
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