Use of a selective enrichment broth to recover Clostridium difficile from stool swabs stored under different conditions - PubMed (original) (raw)

Use of a selective enrichment broth to recover Clostridium difficile from stool swabs stored under different conditions

Luis G Arroyo et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Oct.

Abstract

The recovery of Clostridium difficile from the stools of patients with C. difficile-associated diarrhea was evaluated by use of an enrichment broth (cycloserine-cefoxitin fructose broth supplemented with 0.1% sodium taurocholate [TCCFB]) and was compared to that from selective agar (cycloserine-cefoxitin fructose agar [CCFA]) and alcohol shock followed by inoculation onto blood agar (AS-BA). TCCFB was superior to CCFA and AS-BA, and neither the storage time nor the storage temperature affected the recovery rate.

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