Impact of freezing on the future utility of archived surveillance culture specimens

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 886-888

  Green, Heather P ^a,d   Johnson, Judith A ^a,b   Furuno, Jon P ^a   Strauss, Sandra M ^a   Perencevich, Eli N ^a,b   Lautenbach, Ebbing ^c   Lee, Dong ^e   Harris, Anthony D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; FREEZING; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; NASAL LAVAGE FLUID; RECTUM; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 34447328753     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518843     Document Type: Article

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