Improved cultural selectivity of medically significant fungi by suppression of contaminating bacterial flora employing gallium (III) nitrate

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-203

  Moore, John E ^a,b   Murphy, Alan ^a   Millar, B Cherie ^a   Loughrey, Anne ^a   Rooney, Paul J ^a   Elborn, J Stuart ^a,c   Goldsmith, Colin E ^a  

^a BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CF; Cystic fibrosis; Fungi; Gallium; Isolation; Mycology; Pseudomonas; Selective culture

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GALLIUM NITRATE; GLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA; FUNGUS GROWTH; GROWTH INHIBITION; KLEBSIELLA; LISTERIA; MYCOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SUPPLEMENTATION; YEAST;

AGAR; BACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GALLIUM; HUMANS; IRON; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MYCOSES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA; FUNGI; KLEBSIELLA; LISTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 58749092654     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2008.09.018     Document Type: Article

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