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...