The mycobacteriology laboratory and new diagnostic techniques

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 127-144

  Woods, Gail L ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOXITIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHAMBUTOL; IMIPENEM; ISONIAZID; MINOCYCLINE; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROSCOPY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0036129606     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5520(03)00049-7     Document Type: Review

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