Response of the clinical microbiology laboratory to emerging (new) and reemerging infectious diseases

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2359-2365

  Cockerill III, Franklin R ^a   Smith, Thomas F ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DNA; METICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTHRAX; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LABORATORY TEST; LYME DISEASE; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERTUSSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; ROTAVIRUS; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SHORT SURVEY; SMALLPOX; SMALLPOX VIRUS; TERRORISM; TUBERCULOSIS; VANA GENE; VANB GENE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARS VIRUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VIRUS DISEASES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BORDETELLA; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CORONAVIRUS; EHRLICHIA; FELIS CATUS; FLAVIVIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ROTAVIRUS; SARS CORONAVIRUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VARIOLA VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 2942557089     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.6.2359-2365.2004     Document Type: Short Survey

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