Analysis of a project designed to improve pre-analytical and analytical work-flow of urine cultures;Analisi di un percorso per la razionalizzazione della fase preanalitica e analitica delle urocolture

Rivista Italiana della Medicina di Laboratorio

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 216-223

  Bruschetta, Graziano ^a   Grosso, S ^a   De Rosa, R ^a   Camporese, A ^a  

^a S MARIA DEGLI ANGELI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

BORIC ACID;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; OUTPATIENT; SCREENING; URINALYSIS; URINE CULTURE;

EID: 33749358275     PISSN: 1825859X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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