agar/diarrhea

We studied the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of Klebsiella oxytoca-associated diarrhea in hospitalized patients in Hong Kong. Between 1 November 2009 and 30 April 2011, all inositol-fermenting colonies found on Simmons citrate agar supplemented with inositol, tryptophan, and bile

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in fecal Escherichia coli isolates from healthy persons and patients with diarrhea. METHODS E. coli isolates (n = 428) were obtained from fecal samples of apparently healthy volunteers and hospitalized patients with

Candida is the most frequently encountered fungal infection of the gastrointestinal tract after antibiotic exposure. The pathogenesis of Candida probably varies with each species. The speciation of fecal Candida after antibiotic use is not well investigated. One hundred and eleven fecal samples

The efficiency of MacConkey's agar in the isolation of various types of Shigella was compared with that of salmonella-shigella (SS) agar during an extensive 18-month outbreak of disease caused by Shigella. In all, 1,580 isolates of Shigella were obtained from 12,307 rectal swab and fecal samples of

BACKGROUND Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is one of the most common diseases in children, particularly in those under the age of 5 years in whom a severe picture of hydroelectrolyte imbalance may be triggered accompanied, in most cases, by leukocyte response. The aim of this study was to evaluate three

Production-limiting diseases in swine caused by Brachyspira are characterized by mucohemorrhagic diarrhea (B. hyodysenteriae and "B. hampsonii") or mild colitis (B. pilosicoli), while B. murdochii is often isolated from healthy pigs. Emergence of novel pathogenic Brachyspira species and strains with

A direct fecal Shiga-like toxin assay (DSLTA) was used to prospectively screen 9,449 unselected stool samples, received at the British Columbia Provincial Health Laboratories and the Metropolitan Laboratories of Vancouver, for Shiga-like toxin I and Shiga-like toxin II. The results were compared

To compare the isolating efficiency of diarrhea-causing Escherichia coli between Fluorocult agar plates, which reveal the beta-glucuronidase activity of E. coli, and a combination of SS and DHL agar plates, a total of 330 fecal specimens collected from outpatients were examined. Diarrhea-causing E.

A 1-year-old dog ingested a mixture of blood agar and Mycoplasma agar plates. The Mycoplasma agar plates contained thallium acetate, which resulted in an estimated minimum dose of 5 mg thallium acetate/kg bodyweight. Clinical signs over the course of 2-3 weeks included vomiting, diarrhea, weight

Recently, Beutin et al have studied hemolysin production in a large number of serologically diverse verotoxin (VT) producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) strains and found a close association between hemolysin production and VT production. This study was to examine whether hemolysin production on sheep

The fortuitous finding that Aeromonas spp. grew well on Butzler Campylobacter selective medium (BCSA) in a microaerobic atmosphere at 42 degrees C prompted us to evaluate the performance of BCSA for selective isolation of aeromonads in comparison with ampicillin (30 micrograms/ml) sheep blood agar

BACKGROUND Clostridium difficile is main reason of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in hospitalized patients. Diagnostic method for detection of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) are limited to an enzyme immunoassays (EIAs), while the culture of toxigenic strains is still seen as the gold standard