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Note: Comparison of media for the isolation of lactose‐positive Salmonella
Author(s) -
Ruiz J.,
Núñez M.L.,
Díaz J.,
Sempere M.A.,
Gömez J.,
Usera M.A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1996.tb03549.x
Subject(s) - agar , salmonella , lactose , brilliant green , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , novobiocin , macconkey agar , food science , bacteria , chemistry , genetics , organic chemistry , antibiotics
We studied the capacity of 10 selective media (Rambach agar, RB; salmonella‐shigella agar, SS; SM‐ID medium, SM; Hektoen enteric agar, HE; modified semisolid Rappaport‐Vassiliadis agar, MSRV; bismuth sulphite agar, BS; MacConkey agar, MC; brilliant green agar, BG; novobiocin‐brilliant green‐glucose agar, NBG; and novobiocin‐brilliant green‐glycerol‐lactose agar, NBGL), and the C 8 ‐esterase test (MUCAP test, Biolife, Italy) to detect the growth of 14 strains of lactose‐positive Salmonella (12 Salm. virchow and two Salm. montevideo ) and 16 Salm. arizonae. Suspensions of pure strain were plated on the aforementioned media and on Mueller‐Hinton, used as a control, with inocula of 3 x 10 2 cfu ml ‐1 . The performance of BS was excellent, determining the 30 strains as typical Salmonella colonies (H 2 S+). On NBG, 27 strains were detected. On MSRV, only some strains grew and only one produced swarming. On the other media, the two Salm. montevideo and the 12 Salm. virchow strains produced coliform colonies. Some of these latter were inhibited on BG and NBGL. The 16 Salm. arizonae strains produced typical colonies on all the media, except on RB, SM and MSRV. On NBGL, two strains did not produce H 2 S. The C 8 ‐esterase test was only successful with Salm. montevideo and Salm. virchow on NBG and RB (with a few exceptions on the latter). However, with Salm. arizonae the test was positive on SS, MC, HE, BG and NBG. In summary, BS was the best medium of those used (all the 30 strains were isolated), followed by NBG (27 isolates).