Probable laboratory contamination of clinical specimens with Leptospira meyeri

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 305-306

  Koizumi, Nobuo ^a   Kawabata, Hiroki ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contamination; Leptospira meyeri

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DNA SEQUENCE; HAMSTER; HUMAN; INOCULATION; LEPTOSPIRA; NONHUMAN; NOTI GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SFII GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRICETINAE; LEPTOSPIRA MEYERI;

EID: 0037270213     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2003.tb03400.x     Document Type: Article

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