Evaluation of Acridine Orange Staining as a Replacement of Subcultures for BacT/ALERT-Positive, Gram Stain-Negative Blood Cultures

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 5238-5239

  Adler, Hildegard ^a   Baumlin, Nathalie ^a   Frei, Reno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING;

ACRIDINE ORANGE; BLOOD; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0242593785     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.11.5238-5239.2003     Document Type: Article

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