Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stool culture “performed worse than would be expected” in diagnosing cholera during a waning outbreak in Haiti.

Background: Conventional bacterial stool culture is one of the more time-consuming tests in a routine clinical microbiology laboratory. In addition, less than 5 % of stool cultures yield positive ...

THE widespread use by the armed forces in recent years of the rectal-swab technic for obtaining material for stool culture, described by Hardy, Watt and DeCapito, 1 has emphasized the value of this ...

Laboratories performing diagnostic testing for infectious diseases have an obligation to meet the needs of multiple patient populations. With infectious disease, time it takes for reporting can have ...

Black spots in your stool may be caused by eating certain foods like figs and spices or taking some medications. Black spots may also indicate bleeding in your gastrointestinal tract. Your stool is a ...

While white specks in stool may just be caused by undigested food, it could also point to an internal infection. Overview White specks in the stool can be caused by a large number of different things.

Detection and identification of the etiological agents of acute bacterial diarrhea are important for both the treatment of individual patients and for the management of diarrheal diseases of public ...