RambaQUICK™ Salmonella

Productcode: SQ001
Supplier: CHROMagar
Package size: 1000 ml

Product information

For rapid detection of Salmonella species including S. typhi, S. paratyphi and lactose positive in food samples

From the CDC report Trends in Foodborne Ilness, 1996-2010: "This year’s report (released in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR]) summarizes 2010 data from FoodNet and provides the best measure of trends in foodborne disease from 1996–2010. It confirms that Salmonella infection has not declined in 15 years  <…> One of the report recommendations to reduce the number of Salmonella infections is Enhancing
laboratory testing and disease reporting to more quickly identify outbreaks and their causes"

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Researchs

Comparison of Four Chromogenic Media and Hektoen Agar for Detection and Presumptive Identification of Salmonella Strains in Human Stools
We compared the performance of four commercial chromogenic media—namely, ABC medium (Lab M. Ltd., Bury, United Kingdom), COMPASS Salmonella agar (Biokar Diagnostics, Beauvais, France), CHROMagar™ Salmonella agar (CHROMagar Company, Paris, France), and SM ID agar (bioMerieux, Marcy l’Etoile, France)— with conventional Hektoen medium. Nine hundred sixteen stool samples from inpatients at three hospitals were cultured, in parallel, on the five media, both by direct inoculation and after selective enrichment in selenite broth. The specificity of the four chromogenic media was better than 91% after incubation for 24 h (77.7% with Hektoen agar) and better than 84% after incubation for 48 h (74.8% with Hektoen agar). This higher specificity reduces the need for confirmatory tests, thereby cutting technical time and reagent requirements. Both COMPASS agar and CHROMagar™ Salmonella, which after simple additional tests showed close efficiencies (96 and 97%, respectively), can be recommended as single-plate media of choice for the detection and presumptive identification of salmonellae in stools.