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Comparative Study of Selective Media for Recovery of Yersinia enterocolitica

Abstract

To determine the relative efficacy of pectin agar, cellobiose-arginine-lysine (CAL) agar, Y medium, cefsulodin-irgasan-novobiocin (CIN) agar, MacConkey (MAC) agar, and salmonella-shigella (SS) agar for the recovery of Yersinia enterocolitica, 35 strains of this organism representing the serotypes most commonly associated with human disease in Canada and the United States were inoculated on test media in pure cultures and mixed in fecal …

Authors

Head CB; Whitty DA; Ratnam S

Journal

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 615–621

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Publication Date

October 1982

DOI

10.1128/jcm.16.4.615-621.1982

ISSN

0095-1137