Use of the GenoType Mycobacterium CM and AS assays to analyze 76 nontuberculous mycobacterial isolates from Greece

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2244-2246

  Gitti, Zoe ^a   Neonakis, Ioannis ^a   Fanti, Garyfallia ^a   Kontos, Fanourios ^a   Maraki, Sofia ^a   Tselentis, Yiannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GREECE; INCIDENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM MALMOENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM PHLEI; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SZULGAI; MYCOBACTERIUM XENOPEI; NONHUMAN; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIUM; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA PROBES; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM;

EID: 33745126655     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02088-05     Document Type: Article

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