Specimen storage in transport medium and detection of group B streptococci by culture

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 928-930

  Rosa Fraile, Manuel ^a   Camacho Muñoz, Enrique ^a   Rodríguez Granger, Javier ^a   Liébana Martos, Carmen ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL VIABILITY; FREEZING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STORAGE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RECTUM; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 13844267357     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.2.928-930.2005     Document Type: Article

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