TABLE 3.

Non-C. difficile isolates recovered on CLO medium from 368 stool samples

Organism	No. of isolates recovered
	Vidas-positive samples (n = 268)		Vidas-negative samples (n = 100)
	24 h	48 h	24 h	48 h
Lactobacillus species	57	109	15	33
Gram-negative rods	14	25	10	25
Gram positive cocci	2	4	1	3
Corynebacterium species	2	4	2	2
Clostridium perfringens	2	2
Yeast			0	1
Total	77	144	28	64