Multicenter evaluation of fully automated BACTEC mycobacteria growth indicator tube 960 system for susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 150-154

  Bemer, P ^a   Palicova, F ^a   Rusch Gerdes S ^a   Drugeon, H B ^a   Pfyffer, G E ^a  

^a CHU de Nantes   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ACCURACY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036136352     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.1.150-154.2002     Document Type: Article

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