The mycobactericidal efficacy of oktho phthalaldehyde and the comparative resistances of Mycobacteeium bovis, Mycobacteeium terrae, and Mycobacterium chelonae

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 324-330

  Gregory, Adam W ^a   Schaalje, G Bruce ^a   Smart, Jonathan D ^a   Robison, Richard A ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANT AGENT; PHTHALALDEHYDE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISINFECTANTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; O-PHTHALALDEHYDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 0033126393     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501625     Document Type: Article

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