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J Clin Pathol 56:608-612 doi:10.1136/jcp.56.8.608
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A comparison of the performance of commercially available chromogenic agars for the isolation and presumptive identification of organisms from urine

Table 6

Detection of Gram positive organisms and yeasts (GPOY) in the presence of Gram negative bacilli (GNB)

% Samples detecting GPOY
Quantification of GNB Oxoid UTI medium CPS ID2 CHROMagar p Value comparing media
cfu, colony forming units.
<10 cfu 42.1 45.2 43.2 0.93
10–100 cfu 20.0 29.8 29.1 0.09
>100 cfu 8.6 10.7 11.8 0.15

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