Microbial contamination of embryo cultures in an ART laboratory: Sources and management

Human Reproduction

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2243-2248

  Kastrop, Peter M M ^a   de Graaf Miltenburg, Lia A M ^a   Gutknecht, Dagmar R ^a   Weima, Sjerp M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embryo culture; Infections; IVF; Micro organisms

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CANDIDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34547818711     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dem165     Document Type: Article

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