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Culture Methods to Determine the Limit of Detection and Survival in Transport Media of Campylobacter Jejuni in Human Fecal Specimens
Published on: March 10, 2020
Diagnostic accuracy of surveillance cultures to detect gastrointestinal colonization with multidrug-resistant
Graham M Snyder1, Erika M C D'Agata
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA. gsnyder@bidmc.harvard.edu
Abstract:
To quantify the sensitivity of surveillance cultures for the detection of multidrug-resistant gram-negative (MDRGN) bacteria, perianal/rectal swabs were collected from patients with positive clinical cultures for MDRGN species. Surveillance cultures identified colonization with the same genetically related MDRGN species in 29 of 37 MDRGN clinical culture isolates (78%). There was a trend toward less antimicrobial exposure among patients with false-negative surveillance culture results (P = .06).
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