Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stool culture “performed worse than would be expected” in diagnosing cholera during a waning outbreak in Haiti.

Background: Conventional bacterial stool culture is one of the more time-consuming tests in a routine clinical microbiology laboratory. In addition, less than 5 % of stool cultures yield positive ...

Laboratories performing diagnostic testing for infectious diseases have an obligation to meet the needs of multiple patient populations. With infectious disease, time it takes for reporting can have ...

THE widespread use by the armed forces in recent years of the rectal-swab technic for obtaining material for stool culture, described by Hardy, Watt and DeCapito, 1 has emphasized the value of this ...

86 patient specimens were examined. No pathogens under consideration in this study (i.e., Salmonella, Campylobacter, Shigella and shiga toxin producing organisms) were detected by culture or BD MAX ...