Comparison of BACTEC plus Aerobic/F, Anaerobic/F, Peds Plus/F, and Lytic/F media with and without fastidious organism supplement to conventional methods for culture of sterile body fluids

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 219-225

  Fuller, DeAnna D ^a,b   Davis, Thomas E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WISHARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CASEIN; RESIN;

AMNION FLUID; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERITONEAL FLUID; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPLEMENTATION; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BODY FLUIDS; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; YEASTS;

EID: 0031415791     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(97)00164-8     Document Type: Article

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