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A new isolation medium for the revovery ofYersinia enterocolitica from environmental sources

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Yersinia enterocolitica has been isolated from a wide variety of sources throughout the world. The isolation of this organism requires special awareness from bacteriologists. To ease this procedure, we have developed a new isolation medium—BABY 4—meant to be used for environmental studies. Compared with previously recommended media, such as SS agar, SS-D agar, and urea-novobiocin agar, it allows easy detection ofY. enterocolitica in various types of waters. It counterselects Enterobacteriaceae species fromY. enterocolitica in a ratio of 10−1 to 10−5 and makes quantitative studies of environmental sources possible. This medium also allows the detection after 3–4 days' incubation of as few as 103 Y. enterocolitica per gram of stool.

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  1. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, POB 1172, Jerusalem, Israel

    H. Bercovier & S. Cohen

  2. Unité d'Ecologie Bacterienne, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

    J. Brault, R. Melis & H. H. Mollaret

  3. Central Laboratory, Hôpital Saint-Michel, Paris, France

    T. Lambert

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Bercovier, H., Brault, J., Cohen, S. et al. A new isolation medium for the revovery ofYersinia enterocolitica from environmental sources. Current Microbiology 10, 121–124 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01576770

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