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1Animal Products Laboratory, Russell Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 5677, Athens, Georgia 30604.
Abstract:
An ortho-nitrophenyl-β-D-galactopyranoside (ONPG) test was done on 250 Enterobacteriaceae from human, poultry, and selected food sources by use of four commercially available miniaturized systems and by the conventional test for ONPG. For the 102 cultures from human and poultry sources, all four systems agreed with the conventional test as follows: API (98%), Difco (94.1%) Minitek (98%), and Pathotec (98%). For the 148 food isolates, the percent agreement between the conventional and these four systems was significantly lower, API (87.2%), Difco (85.8%), Minitek (88.5%), and Pathotec (85.8%).
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