Seven years' experience of isolation of Rickettsia spp. from clinical specimens using the shell vial cell culture assay

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 990, Issue , 2003, Pages 371-374

  Vestris, G ^a   Rolain, J M ^a   Fournier, P E ^a   Birg, M L ^a   Enea, M ^a   Patrice, J Y ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Rickettsia; Shell vial; Skin biopsy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOSAFETY; CELL CULTURE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INOCULATION; LUNG FIBROBLAST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SUPERNATANT; TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RICKETTSIA;

EID: 0038051573     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07394.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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