Evaluation of API Coryne system, version 2.0, for diphteroid gram-positive rods identification with clinical relevance;Evaluación del sistema API Coryne, versión 2.0, para la identificación de bacilos gram-positivos difteroides de importancia clínica

Revista Argentina de Microbiologia

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 197-201

  Almuzara, M N ^a   De Mier, C ^a   Rodriguez C R ^a   Famiglietti, A M R ^a   Vay, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

API Coryne (version 2.0); Bacterial identification; Gram positive rods

Indexed keywords

ARCANOBACTERIUM HAEMOLYTICUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM AMYCOLATUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM UREALYTICUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; LABORATORY APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPAIN;

ARGENTINA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CATALASE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE ASPOROGENOUS RODS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; RHODOCOCCUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 33846849580     PISSN: 03257541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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