Interpretive criteria for use of AccuProbe for identification of Mycobacterium avium complex directly from 7H9 broth cultures

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 3474-3478

  Cloud, Joann L ^a   Carroll, Karen C ^d   Cohen, Samuel ^b   Anderson, Clint M ^b   Woods, Gail L ^a,b,c  

^a ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b ARUP LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENE SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PROBES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACILLI; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX (MAC); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 22144492991     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.7.3474-3478.2005     Document Type: Article

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