Stool Culture LabCorp

Detect bacterial pathogenic organisms in the stool; diagnose typhoid fever, enteric fever, bacillary dysentery, Salmonella infection.

Indications for stool culture include:1

• Bloody diarrhea

• Fever

• Tenesmus

• Severe or persistent symptoms

• Recent travel to a third world country

• Known exposure to a bacterial agent

• Presence of fecal leukocytes