Media with yeast RNA for isolating Shigella flexneri from feces
Zemskov, M.V.; Pritulina, I.G.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 12: 67-69
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 371291 Document Number: 135040
The authors demonstrated a considerable, in comparison with the control, increase of the biomass of Sh. flexneri causative agent, when growing in meat-peptone broth with 1-4 mg of NaRNA, and of the number of colonies in the feces of the patients and of healthy persons artificially contaminated with Sh. flexneri when inoculated in Ploskirev's agar or Endo medium with 4 mg/ml of NaRNA. Using media with NaRNA for laboratory diagnosis of dysentery is recommended.