Campylobacter - Culture

LABOKLIN Service ID: 162

Material

faeces, swab with medium (intestine, cloaca)

Method

bacterial cultural, MALDI-TOF

Duration

2 working days or 4 working days with antibiogram

Remark

  • Please send in a faecal sample with a diameter of at least the size of a cherry, otherwise use swab with medium.
  • A combined cultural detection of campylobacter and yersinia is also available.
  • Resistances are common; treatment should therefore only be carried out after an antibiogram has been performed. Preparation of an antibiogram is only possible after performing a culture test.
  • Feeding a raw meat diet is a source of infection for C. jejuni.
  • It is a notifiable disease in some countries.