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The relative performance of five plating media [Rambach agar; salmonella-shigella (SS) agar, novobiocin-brilliant green-glycerol-lactose (NBGL), modified semisolid Rappaport-Vassiliadis medium (MSRV), andSalmonella Detection and Identification-2 (SM2)] and selenite broth (SB) subcultured in SS agar in the recovery ofSalmonella spp. from 500 human stool specimens was evaluated. On Rambach agar and SS agar, the C8-esterase test was also used for selection of suspicious colonies. Eighty-one samples were positive for salmonellae on at least one of the six media. Sensitivities and specificities of MSRV, SB, NBGL, SS, Rambach agar, and SM2 were 95.1 and 98.1%, 87.6 and 99.8%, 79 and 91.9%, 69.1 and 99.3%, 56.8 and 96.9%, and 54.3 and 92.4%, respectively. There were statistically significant differences between MSRV and NBGL, Rambach agar, SS agar, and SM2 (p < 0.005), between SB and SS agar, Rambach agar, and SM2 (p < 0.05), and between NBGL and SM2 and Rambach agar (p < 0.005). The greatest number of isolates was recovered with MSRV, whose performance surpassed that of enrichment in selenite broth, probably because the subcultures were not repeated on MSRV. This hypothesis is now under investigation. The specificity of each of the five solid media was greater than 90%.
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Ruiz, J., Núñez, M.L., Lorente, I. et al. Performance of six culture media for isolation ofSalmonella species from stool samples. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 15, 922–926 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01690509
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