Comparison of BACTEC MGIT 960 and BACTEC 460 for culture of Mycobacteria

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 123-126

  Whyte, Tom ^a   Cormican, Martin ^a,b   Hanahoe, Belinda ^a   Doran, Geraldine ^a   Collins, Tom ^a   Corbett Feeney, Geraldine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bactec 460; Bactec MGIT; Culture; Mycobacterium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033781155     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(00)00179-6     Document Type: Article

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