Evaluation of Chromocult coliform agar for the detection and enumeration of Enterobacteriaceae from faecal samples from healthy subjects

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 353-358

  Finney, M ^a   Smullen, J ^a   Foster, H A ^a   Brokx, S ^b   Storey, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Purac Biochem BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromocult; Coliforms; Enterobacteriaceae; Enumeration; Escherichia coli; Faecal flora

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ACCURACY; AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037783954     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7012(03)00068-X     Document Type: Article

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