Use of unmodified starches and partial removal of serum to improve Granada medium stability

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1989-1991

  Rosa Fraile, Manuel ^a   Rodríguez Granger, Javier ^a   Camacho Muñoz, Enrique ^a   Sampedro, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STARCH;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SERUM; SHELF LIFE; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HORSES; HUMANS; ORYZA SATIVA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RECTUM; SERUM; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STARCH; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 16844368236     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.4.1989-1991.2005     Document Type: Article

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