Use of CultureSwab plus swabs with amies gel agar for testing of naris specimens with the GeneOhm MRSA assay

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2281-2283

  Bourbeau, P P ^a   Riley, J A ^a   Shoemaker, B C ^a   Jones, K S ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NOSE CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARRIER STATE; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; NOSE; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34547619916     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01600-06     Document Type: Article

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