Evaluation of the ID 32E for the identification of Gram-negative glucose-fermenting and glucose-non-fermenting bacilli

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 277-281

  O'Hara, Caroline Mohr ^a,b   Michael Miller, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterobacteriaceae identification; Evaluation; ID 32E

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ALCALIGENES; BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EWINGELLA AMERICANA; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA PLYMUTHICA; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 0345712344     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1999.tb00141.x     Document Type: Article

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