The rapid evaluation of bacterial growth in blood cultures by selected ion flow tube-mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS) and comparison with the BacT/ALERT automated blood culture system

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 628-631

  Scotter, J M ^a   Allardyce, R A ^a   Langford, V S ^a   Hill, A ^a   Murdoch, D R ^b,c  

^a Syft Technologies Limited Christchurch   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

BacT ALERT; Blood cultures; Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATION; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33646354179     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2005.09.016     Document Type: Article

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