Comparison of BacT/Alert and BACTEC NR 860 blood culture systems in a laboratory not continuously staffed

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 345-351

  Riest, Gunther ^a   Linde, Hans Jörg ^a   Shah, Pramod M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b Zentrum der Inneren Medizin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automation; Blood culture systems; Laboratory procedures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

EID: 0030741251     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1997.tb00624.x     Document Type: Article

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