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Results with CHROMagar STEC medium compared with those by the standard procedure on 329 stool specimens
| CHROMagar STEC result | No. of stool specimens |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STEC isolated by the standard procedurea |
eae-positive E. coli isolated |
|||
| Positive | Negative | Positive | Negative | |
| Positive | 32 | 48 | 41 | 39 |
| Negative | 3 | 246 | 5 | 244 |
| Total (n = 329) | 35 | 294 | 46 | 283 |
Four stool specimens that were stx positive but from which STEC was not isolated were scored as negative.
