ALLMedicine™ Stool Culture Center

Jan 2nd, 2021 - Differentiating between enteric infection and relapse of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a common clinical challenge. Few studies have evaluated the impact of multiplex gastrointestinal polymerase chain reaction (GI PCR) pathogen panels on cli...

Jan 2nd, 2021 - The FecalSwab® displays high performances for stool culture, but it was not assessed for carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) screening. We assess the performances of the Xpert Carba-R v2® with the FecalSwab®. Using a collection of 12 CP...

Sep 29th, 2020 - BACKGROUND Nosocomial diarrhea affects 12% to 32% of hospitalized patients. Before the development of the Clostridium difficile cytotoxin assay in the 1970s, Staphylococcus aureus was frequently implicated as a cause of hospital-acquired infectiou...

Sep 1st, 2020 - Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a well-established cause of traveller's diarrhoea and occasional domestic foodborne illness outbreaks in the USA. Although ETEC are not detected by conventional stool culture methods used in clinical labo...

Jul 30th, 2020 - Rapid and accurate diagnostic tools are needed for appropriate management of infectious diarrhea. We evaluated the impact of the introduction of rapid multiplex PCR testing using the FilmArray gastrointestinal (GI) panel (BioFire Diagnostics, LLC,...

Jan 2nd, 2021 - Differentiating between enteric infection and relapse of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a common clinical challenge. Few studies have evaluated the impact of multiplex gastrointestinal polymerase chain reaction (GI PCR) pathogen panels on cli...

Jan 2nd, 2021 - The FecalSwab® displays high performances for stool culture, but it was not assessed for carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) screening. We assess the performances of the Xpert Carba-R v2® with the FecalSwab®. Using a collection of 12 CP...

Sep 29th, 2020 - BACKGROUND Nosocomial diarrhea affects 12% to 32% of hospitalized patients. Before the development of the Clostridium difficile cytotoxin assay in the 1970s, Staphylococcus aureus was frequently implicated as a cause of hospital-acquired infectiou...

Sep 1st, 2020 - Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a well-established cause of traveller's diarrhoea and occasional domestic foodborne illness outbreaks in the USA. Although ETEC are not detected by conventional stool culture methods used in clinical labo...

Jul 30th, 2020 - Rapid and accurate diagnostic tools are needed for appropriate management of infectious diarrhea. We evaluated the impact of the introduction of rapid multiplex PCR testing using the FilmArray gastrointestinal (GI) panel (BioFire Diagnostics, LLC,...

Jun 11th, 2019 - SAN DIEGO – For patients with acute gastroenteritis, multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR)–based gastrointestinal pathogen testing was associated with lower resource utilization and less antibiotic prescribing, compared with conventional stool.

Mar 17th, 2019 - Which test would be least useful as part of the initial evaluation? Your Peers Chose: Complete blood count 0% IBD serology 0% Comprehensive metabolic panel 0% Sedimentation rate 0% Stool culture 0% Serologic Testing in Pediatric IBD Although IBD s...

Dec 30th, 2002 - Question I have a 61-year-old female patient who is status-post 18 months liver transplantation (for HCV-related chronic hepatic failure) with diarrhea since 6 months after transplantation. Her stool culture for Clostridium difficile, colonoscopy,...