False diagnosis of tuberculosis by culture;Falso diagnostico de tuberculosis por cultivo

Medicina

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 287-294

  Alonso, Valeria ^a   Paul, Roxana ^a   Barrera, Lucia ^a   Ritacco, Viviana ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Laboratory cross contamination; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Strain typing

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34447334151     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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