ALLMedicine™ Stool Culture Center

Mar 21st, 2021 - Infections caused by multidrug-resistant shigellae resistant to broad-spectrum cephalosporins are becoming more prevalent in the Middle East. We report a case of severe diarrhea due to a multiresistant Shigella flexneri 1 strain carrying four diff...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Few studies have evaluated determinants of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Vibrio cholerae O1 in older children and adults. This study aimed to characterize the prevalence of MDR V. cholerae O1 and associated risk factors among patients over five years ...

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...

Mar 21st, 2021 - Infections caused by multidrug-resistant shigellae resistant to broad-spectrum cephalosporins are becoming more prevalent in the Middle East. We report a case of severe diarrhea due to a multiresistant Shigella flexneri 1 strain carrying four diff...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Few studies have evaluated determinants of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Vibrio cholerae O1 in older children and adults. This study aimed to characterize the prevalence of MDR V. cholerae O1 and associated risk factors among patients over five years ...

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...

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,...