Abstract
A total of 4,284 H2S-positive colonies isolated on salmonella-shigella agar and 4,350 isolated on Hektoen agar were flooded with 5 microliters of a reagent (MUCAP test; Biolife Italiana S.r.l., Milan, Italy) and observed after 3 to 5 min for the development of fluorescence produced in the presence of the C8 esterase enzyme. All of the 794 colonies isolated on salmonella-shigella agar and the 752 isolated on Hektoen agar and identified as positive for Salmonella spp. with conventional biochemical tests were found positive with the MUCAP test (the sensitivity was 100% and the negative predictive value was 100% for both media). Moreover, only six isolates identified by conventional biochemical tests as Proteus vulgaris were MUCAP test positive (the specificity was 99.8% and the positive predictive value was 99.2% for both media). On the basis of these results, we propose the use of the MUCAP test as a method for the screening of H2S-positive colonies and only subculturing on Kliger agar of those colonies which are MUCAP test positive. The MUCAP test is a rapid method for the presumptive detection of Salmonella spp. and reduces the work and material involved in testing.
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