Performance of Bacticard™ Candida compared with the germ tube test for the presumptive identification of Candida albicans

Mycoses

Volumn 46, Issue 11-12, 2003, Pages 467-470

  Carrillo Munoz A J ^a,f   Quindos G ^b   Cardenes C D ^c   Alonso Vargas, R ^b   Brio S ^a   Arevalo P ^c   Peman J ^d   Estivill, D ^e   Ponton J ^b  

^a Associacio Catalana d'Intelligencia Artificial   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^e Servicios de Microbiología   (Spain)

^f NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacticard Candida; Candida; Identification; Yeasts

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PROLINE AMINOPEPTIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BETA N ACETYLHEXOSAMINIDASE; PROLINE IMINOPEPTIDASE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GERM TUBE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MYCOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; FUNGI;

AMINOPEPTIDASES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEXOSAMINIDASES; MYCOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0347477357     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0933-7407.2003.00921.x     Document Type: Article

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