Direct identification of Mycobacterium avium complex and Mycobacterium gordonae from MB/BacT bottles using accuprobe

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 570-573

  Louro, A P S ^a   Waites, K B ^a   Georgescu, E ^a   Benjamin W H , Jr ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; INCUBATION TIME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOLOGY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0035129198     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.2.570-573.2001     Document Type: Article

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