Use of a semiselective medium to culture Legionella pneumophila from contaminated lung specimens
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 10 (2) , 141-143
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.10.2.141-143.1979
Abstract
L. pneumophila was successfully isolated, using a semiselective medium, from 2 of 3 lung specimens [human] heavily contaminated with other organisms. This medium is composed of charcoal yeast extract agar, supplemented with vancomycin and polymyxin B. L. pneumophila was observed at 8 days on plates containing .ltoreq. 40 units of polymyxin B and .ltoreq. 1 .mu.g of vancomycin/ml.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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