Comparison of the radiometric BACTEC 460 TB culture system and Löwenstein-Jensen medium for the isolation of mycobacteria in cutaneous tuberculosis and their drug susceptibility pattern

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 681-687

  Aggarwal, Puneet ^a   Singal, Archana ^a,b   Bhattacharya, Sambit Nath ^a   Mishra, Kiran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUPUS VULGARIS; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RADIOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, CUTANEOUS;

EID: 47649118274     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2008.03675.x     Document Type: Article

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