Comparison of two selective media for the isolation of Campylobacter species from a pediatric population in Mexico

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 329-332

  Barbosa, Patricia Arzate ^a   Gonzalez, Rafael Garcia ^a   Nava, Eliut Ponce ^a   Nachamkin, Irving ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PEDIATRÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURE MEDIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEXICO; NEWBORN; NOTE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

EID: 0032790390     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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