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Evaluation of disk method for hippurate hydrolysis by Campylobacter species
1Foodborne Diseases Laboratory Section, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|May 1, 1995
Abstract:
A disk method for hippurate hydrolysis was compared with the ninhydrin tube method by using 140 genetically confirmed Campylobacter strains. Results were similar for 129 (92%) strains when the inoculum size for the disk method was standardized. Six strains (4.2%) showed variable results by each method. Our results conflict with those obtained in studies by others, who found the two methods to be dissimilar.