Phage cocktail to control the exponential growth of normal flora in processed sputum specimens grown overnight in liquid medium for rapid TB diagnosis

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 536-542

  Kumar, Vanaja ^a   Balaji, S ^a   Gomathi, N S ^a   Venkatesan, P ^a   Sekar, Gomathi ^a   Jayasankar, K ^a   Narayanan, P R ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Decontamination; Normal flora; Phagebiotics

Indexed keywords

AGAR; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CULTURE MEDIUM; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOPHAGES; CULTURE MEDIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; LYSOGENY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

BACILLI (CLASS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33847309483     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2006.10.015     Document Type: Article

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