Detection of infection or infectious agents by use of cytologic and histologic stains

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 382-404

  Woods, Gail L ^a   Walker, David H ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CYTOPATHOLOGY; GRAM STAINING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PARASITOSIS; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; SILVER IMPREGNATION; SMEAR; STAINING; TISSUE SECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 0030055589     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.9.3.382     Document Type: Review

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