Abstract
The Association of State and Territorial Public Health Laboratory Directors has recommended that clinical laboratories screen at least all bloody stools for Escherichia coli O157:H7. We contacted the microbiology supervisors of 230 randomly selected clinical laboratories in the United States and administered a standardized questionnaire regarding stool culture practices. Of the 129 laboratories that performed stool cultures, only 70 (54%) reported screening either all stools or all bloody stools submitted for culture for E. coli O157:H7.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 3275-7 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of Clinical Microbiology |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| State | Published - Dec 1995 |
Keywords
- Data Collection
- Diarrhea/microbiology
- Disease Outbreaks
- Escherichia coli/classification
- Escherichia coli Infections/epidemiology
- Feces/microbiology
- Humans
- Laboratories
- Mass Screening
- Occult Blood
- United States/epidemiology
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article