Evaluation of the BacT/Alert(®) microbial detection system with FAN aerobic and FAN anaerobic bottles for culturing normally sterile body fluids other than blood

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-9

  Simor, Andrew E ^a,b   Scythes, Karen ^a,b   Meaney, Helen ^a,b   Louie, Marie ^a,b  

^a Quality Management Program   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BODY FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROORGANISM; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BODY FLUIDS; EVALUATION STUDIES;

EID: 0034007106     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00157-1     Document Type: Article

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