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A new selective method for isolation of Haemophilus species
1Institute of Microbiology, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary.
Acta Microbiologica Et Immunologica Hungarica
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Chocolate agar with teicoplanin disk (30 micrograms) was used for the isolation of Haemophilus strains. Fifty strains of 3 Haemophilus species grew as well in the inhibition zones of teicoplanin disks as on teicoplanin containing selective plates, whereas Gram-positive bacteria failed to form colonies. This selective method proved especially advantageous when Haemophilus strains were isolated from mixed bacterial cultures of 665 specimens.