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. 1990 Aug;28(8):1851–1853. doi: 10.1128/jcm.28.8.1851-1853.1990

Presumptive identification of Clostridium difficile by detection of p-cresol in prepared peptone yeast glucose broth supplemented with p-hydroxyphenylacetic acid.

G Sivsammye 1, H V Sims 1
PMCID: PMC268058  PMID: 2394806

Abstract

Prereduced, anaerobically sterilized peptone yeast glucose broth was supplemented with p-hydroxyphenylacetic acid and used for the presumptive identification of Clostridium difficile. Two hundred eighty-two organisms were grown in this medium for 18 h and tested for p-cresol production by gas-liquid chromatography. All 49 stock and reference strains of C. difficile and 19 organisms confirmed as C. difficile produced p-cresol. p-Cresol was not produced by 53 negative control or 161 test organisms. The system was convenient and effective.

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