Establishing Campylobacter culture methods in a clinical diagnostic laboratory and the first report of Campylobacter species isolation in northern Sri Lanka

Establishing Campylobacter culture methods in a clinical diagnostic laboratory and the first report of Campylobacter species isolation in northern Sri Lanka

<p>Introduction: The Enteric Reference Laboratory of the Medical Research Institute (ERL/MRI), Colombo is the only public sector laboratory in Sri Lanka that performs Campylobacter cultures. Due to logistic limitations involving specimen transport from distant sites, efforts were taken to esta...

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Main Authors: FN Mubarak, MVSC Pathirage, N Kandasamy, A Keerthika, S Mahalingam, FJM Mithulan, K Selvi, S Umakanthan, KCR Perera, KDK Waidyarathne, SAN Sandeepani, G Sathiadas, SK Arulmoli, N Srisaravanapavananthan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sri Lankan Society for Microbiology 2019-04-01
Series:Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
campylobacter spp., diarrhoeal disease, stool culture, blood-free charcoal-based selective agar, variable atmospheric incubator
Online Access:https://sljid.sljol.info/articles/8240

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