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Poultry: New Campylobacter-Detecting Medium Licensed

Published: October 16, 2007
Summary
A quicker, simpler way to distinguish between Campylobacter species has now been licensed for manufacture by two U.S. companies. The new culture medium called Campy-Cefex is specifically designed to detect and differentiate C. jejuni and C. coli mixtures of food-contaminating microbes. These two bacteria are important causes of foodborne illness. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) microbiologist...
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