Novel microtiter plate format for testing germ tube formation and proposal of a cost-effective scheme for yeast identification in a clinical laboratory

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 197-204

  Peltroche Llacsahuanga, Heidrun ^a   Jenster, Antje ^a   Lütticken, Rudolf ^a   Haase, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; MYCOLOGY; TREHALASE;

EID: 0032761037     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00093-0     Document Type: Article

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