I had lingering incurable stink with BOSCH dishwasher. After some months of bleach flushing, hot cycles etc. I lifted out the catcher cage, which lives on floor of chamber under a rectangular metal plate. There is a nylon fabric mesh filter which can be treated with hot water in a saucepan, and can be gently scrubbed. HOWEVER, the cage filter assembly when gently prised apart, had all sorts of very nasty gummy fungus blobs growing on its hidden parts. These could never be washed off, and had to be scraped off with an old toothbrush.
The self renewing bacterial focus is now gone away, at least until next stinky time.
oldjohn
September 2015