Multicenter evaluation of the new Vitek 2 Neisseria-Haemophilus identification card

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2681-2685

  Rennie, Robert P ^a   Brosnikoff, Cheryl ^a   Shokoples, Sandy ^a   Reller, L Barth ^b   Mirrett, Stanley ^b   Janda, William ^c   Ristow, Kathy ^c   Krilcich, Ann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DEVICE; EVALUATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HAEMOPHILUS; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS; HUMANS; NEISSERIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 53149141426     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00449-08     Document Type: Article

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