Failure of an automated blood culture system to detect nonfermentative gram-negative bacteria

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1036-1041

  Klaerner, H G ^a   Eschenbach, U ^a   Kamereck, K ^a   Lehn, N ^b   Wagner, H ^a   Miethke, T ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 0034048956     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.3.1036-1041.2000     Document Type: Article

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