ENHANCING EFFECT OF FECES ON ISOLATION OF SALMONELLAE FROM SELENITE BROTH

The addition of feces to selenite broth significantly enhanced the ability of this medium to select for salmonellae in an environment initially containing overwhelming numbers of coliform bacteria. Either heat-sterilized or Seitz-filtered feces produced this effect. In most experiments, the selectivity of selenite broth was unaffected by unsterile feces. Human blood and plasma markedly reduced selenite efficiency. In a base medium supporting both coliform and Shigella growth, heat-sterilized feces imposed a measure of selectivity for Shigella.

EFFECT OF DIETARY ANTIBIOTICS UPON COLIFORM BACTERIA AND LACTOBACILLI IN THE INTESTINAL TRACT OF URIC ACID-FED CHICKS

Bare , L. N. (University of Kentucky, Lexington), R. F. Wiseman, and O. J. Abbott . Effect of dietary antibiotics upon coliform bacteria and lactobacilli in the intestinal tract of uric acid-fed chicks. J. Bacteriol. 87: 329–331. 1964.—Male chicks (1-day-old; Vantress X Arbor Acre) were fed a basal glucose-soybean oil meal diet, a 2% uric acid-containing diet with and without 5 mg/lb of zinc bacitracin and 20 mg/lb of procaine penicillin G, and one supplemented with the antibiotics only. After 4 weeks, the chicks receiving the uric acid without antibiotics showed a weight depression. The presence of antibiotics in the ration with the uric acid reversed this growth depression. Bacteriological and chemical analyses of the contents of the small intestine revealed an increase in numbers of uricolytic Aerobacter spp. and an increased degradation of uric acid in the tract of the “uric-antibiotic”-fed chicks. The counts of lactobacilli were always lowest in this group of chicks