Comparison of direct selective versus nonselective agar media plus LIM broth enrichment for determination of group B streptococcus colonization status in pregnant women

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 718-720

  Elsayed, Sameer ^a,c   Gregson, Daniel B ^a,b,c   Church, Deirdre L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c CALGARY LABORATORY SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; COLISTIN; NALIDIXIC ACID;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIM BROTH MEDIUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RECTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; URBAN AREA; VAGINA SMEAR;

AGAR; ANIMALS; CENTRALIZED HOSPITAL SERVICES; COLISTIN; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; NALIDIXIC ACID; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL DISEASES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; VAGINAL DISEASES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0037566472     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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