Recommended transpo medium for stool specimen suspected to contain enteric pathogen is –
Correct Answer: Buffered glycerol saline medium
Description: In the case of delicate organisms which may not survuve the time taken for transpoing the specimen to the laboratory or may be overgrown by non pathogens (such as dysentry or cholera organisms in feces ) special media are devised for transpoing the specimens. These are termed as transpo media for eg;Stua 's medium - a non nutrient soft agar gel containing a reducing agent to prevent oxidation and charcoal to neutralise ceain bacterial inhibitors-for gonococci and buffered glycerol saline for enteric bacilli REF:Ananthanarayan & Panicker's Textbook of Microbiology 9th edition pg no:43
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