CHROMATIC ENTEROCOCCUS

CHROMATIC ENTEROCOCCUS is a chromogenic medium for the detection of enterococci directly from foodstuffs, environmental samples and clinical specimens. Enterococci are Gram-positive cocci presenting as harmless commensal to multifaceted deadly pathogens. The most frequent infections caused by them are urinary infections followed by wound infections and blood stream infections. Most clinical infections are due to either E. faecalis or E. faecium and although in bacteraemia cases the predominance of E. faecium has been observed, E. faecalis is the most common isolate clinically. The CHROMATIC ENTEROCOCCUS medium allows an early enterococci detection distinguishing the two predominant strains from the contaminant bacteria