[Evaluation of the efficiency of a new dried nutrient medium for isolating Corynebacterium diphtheriae]

Tellurite blood media prepared on a new dried base with amino peptide have been found to have advantages, when used for the bacteriological diagnosis of C. diphtheriae infection, over Buchin's selective quinosol medium with respect to the rate and time of the isolation of C. diphtheriae; besides, these new media have been found to possess pronounced differentiating properties with respect to the concomitant microflora.