Improved Rate of Isolation of Neisseria meningitidis by Direct Plating of Pharyngeal Swabs
- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 39 (12) , 4575-4576
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.39.12.4575-4576.2001
Abstract
Culturing of pharyngeal swabs for Neisseria meningitidis is an important clinical and epidemiological tool. Routine methods include direct plating onto solid medium or later plating in the laboratory. A comparison of these methods used with 490 high school students found a significantly higher carriage rate with direct plating (11.8 versus 6.1%; P < 0.001).Keywords
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