Optimal use of Myco/F Lytic and standard BACTEC blood culture bottles for detection of yeast and mycobacteria

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 93-96

  Kirby, James E ^a   Delaney, Meghan ^b   Qian, Qinfang ^a   Gold, Howard S ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PUGET SOUND BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; FUNGAL DETECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; MALASSEZIA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 58349114481     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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