Abstract
Seventeen Canadian Federal, Provincial and Public Health Laboratories took part in different phases of a comparative/collaborative study that evaluated rapid methods to the standard Health Protection Branch (HPB) method for the detection of Salmonella. A variety of commercial media were tested, including Brilliant Green Sulpha Agar, Bismuth Sulphite Agar, Hektoen Enteric Agar, Xylose Lysine Deoxycholate Agar, EF-18 Agar and Rambach Agar. Each laboratory compared up to six of these different plating media. Plating of 123 salmonellae culttures and 28 artificially-inoculated foods showed the recovery of Salmonella spp. on the six plating media to be within one log. Therefore, quantitative testing of the media showed them to be comparable in the recovery of salmonellae. Qualitative testing of the six media during the comparative/collaborative study of various methods showed that EF-18 Agar recovered the greatest number of isolates. Hektoen Enteric Agar ranked second, with the other agars being comparable in their recovery of Salmonella spp. Problems with the various media are summarized. Based on our results and those of other researchers, it is recommended that Bismuth Sulphite Agar be compulsory and that at least one other agar be used for newly developed cultural procedures.
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