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Evaluation of SMID agar for identification of salmonella in naturally contaminated veterinary samples
Author(s) -
Davies R.H.,
Wray C.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
letters in applied microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.698
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1472-765X
pISSN - 0266-8254
DOI - 10.1111/j.1472-765x.1994.tb00787.x
Subject(s) - agar , contamination , salmonella , agar plate , food science , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , veterinary medicine , chemistry , bacteria , medicine , ecology , genetics
Five hundred naturally contaminated samples were examined in a trial where SMID agar was compared with either Brilliant Green agar, Rambach agar or Xylose, Lysine, Desoxycholate agar. There were no significant differences in sensitivity but SMID agar detected slightly more salmonella isolates than BGA agar following RVS enrichment and slightly less following Selenite enrichment. There was, however, a marked reduction in the level of false‐positives when SMID agar was used.