TABLE 2.
Efficacy of enrichment broths for the isolation of Salmonella spp.
| Method or culture mediuma |
Salmonella spp. isolated
|
|
|---|---|---|
| No. | % | |
| Direct plating onto XLD agar | 1 | 0.6 |
| GN broth-XLD agar | 6 | 3.8 |
| SBG broth-XLD agar | 16 | 10.3 |
| Total | 17 | 10.9 |
A total of 155 clinical fecal specimens were analyzed for each method.