culture, and molecular techniques). Conversely, non-invasive methods, which are more widely used, do not require endoscopy. The 13C-urea breath test (UBT) is commonly used, but it is challenging for ...

Background: Conventional bacterial stool culture is one of the more time-consuming tests in a routine clinical microbiology laboratory. In addition, less than 5 % of stool cultures yield positive ...

Conventional bacterial culture remains the gold standard for the aforementioned detection, even though stool culture has relatively low sensitivity and requires a significant amount of labor.