Use of spoligotype analysis to detect laboratory cross-contamination

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 525-527

  Nivin, Beth ^a   Driscoll, Jeffrey ^b   Glaser, Tom ^a   Bifani, Pablo ^c   Munsiff, Sonal ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0033841143     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501799     Document Type: Article

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