Direct bacterial identification from positive BacT/Alert blood cultures using MicroScan overnight and rapid panels

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-26

  Waites, Ken B ^a   Brookings, Eneida S ^a   Moser, Stephen A ^a   Zimmer, Barbara L ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CULTURE MEDIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032440593     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(98)00058-3     Document Type: Article

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