A 45-year-old female complains of lower abdominal pain and vaginal discharge. On examination, there is cervicitis along with a mucopurulent cervical discharge. The best approach to isolate the possible causative agent would be
Sexually transmitted diseases may be present in the following ways: Vaginal discharge, Cervical/urethral discharge due to Neisseria gonorrhoea or Chlamydia trachomatis Genital ulcers etc. The culture for sexually transmitted diseases is done by Irradiated McCoy cells medium Ref: Ananthanarayan and Paniker&;s Textbook of Microbiology, 9th edition; Pg no 675
Culture chocolate agar supplemented with Haemin
Culture on McCoy cells
Culture on a bilayer human blood agar
Culture on vero cell lines
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