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Single Lab Test
Use: Detect bacterial pathogenic organisms in the stool; diagnose typhoid fever, enteric fever, bacillary dysentery, and Salmonella infection.
Indications for stool culture include:
Limitations: Yersinia sp and Vibrio parahaemolyticus will not be isolated unless specifically requested; these will each be done with an additional charge. These organisms are fastidious and have very specific requirements for growth.
Methodology: Aerobic culture on selective media; detection of EHEC Shiga-like toxins by enzyme immunoassay (EIA)
Contraindications: A rectal swab culture is not as effective as a stool culture for the detection of the carrier state.
* Stool Culture; possible reflex to 5 different organisms.