Microbiological evaluation of the new VITEK 2 Neisseria-haemophilus identification card

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3493-3497

  Valenza, Giuseppe ^a   Ruoff, Claudia ^a   Vogel, Ulrich ^a   Frosch, Matthias ^a   Abele Horn, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CARDIOBACTERIUM; CARDIOBACTERIUM HOMINIS; DEVICE; EIKENELLA; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; EVALUATION; GARDNERELLA; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS APHROPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS PARAPHROPHILUS; KINGELLA; KINGELLA DENITRIFICANS; MORAXELLA; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA CINEREA; NEISSERIA ELONGATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEISSERIA SICCA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HAEMOPHILUS; NEISSERIA; TIME FACTORS;

ACTINOBACILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CARDIOBACTERIUM; EIKENELLA; GARDNERELLA; HAEMOPHILUS; KINGELLA; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA;

EID: 36349013258     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00953-07     Document Type: Article

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