Cetyl-pyridinium chloride is useful for isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputa subjected to long-term storage

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 442-444

  Pardini, Manuela ^a   Varaine, Francis ^c   Iona, Elisabetta ^a   Arzumanian, Erchanik ^e   Checchi, Francesco ^d   Oggioni, Marco Rinaldo ^b   Orefici, Graziella ^a   Fattorini, Lanfranco ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^d EPICENTRE   (France)

^e Guliripchi Tuberculosis Hospital   (Georgia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CETYLPYRIDINIUM SALT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPUTUM CULTURE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CETYLPYRIDINIUM; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 11844254819     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.1.442-444.2005     Document Type: Article

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