Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal
Article Title
Abstract
Data presented are derived from one year of performing routine clinical anaerobic bacteriology by the roll-streak tube method. 826 specimens from 1508 (54.8%) contained anaerobes. 162 specimens were polymicrobic (19.6%) and contained 528 strains of a total of 1051 isolated (50.2 %). 479 blood specimens contained 525 strains of anaerobes. Propionibacterium, considered a contaminant, occurred 209/210 times in blood as the sole isolate. Bacteroides occurred alone or polymicrobically 308 times and comprised 54.7% of the blood isolates and 32.5% of the total anaerobic genera isolated. Clostridium, Peptococcus and Fusobacterium were the next most frequently occurring anaerobes. The roll-streak method is a means to competent anaerobe isolation. Its apparatus is not expensive and permits use of routine laboratory incubation equipment for anaerobic work.
Recommended Citation
Neblett, Thomas R.
(1976)
"Productivity of the roll-streak method to perform anaerobic bacteriology in the routine clinical laboratory,"
Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal
: Vol. 24
:
No.
2
, 103-118.
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