Method for quantitative detection and presumptive identification of group B streptococci on primary plating

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1399-1403

  Hansen, Søren Mose ^a   Skov Sørensen, Uffe B ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELIVERY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RECTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VAGINA SMEAR;

AGAR; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; CARRIER STATE; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RECTUM; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 0037386854     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.4.1399-1403.2003     Document Type: Article

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