Evaluation of low-colony-number counts of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on solid media as a microbiological marker of cross-contamination

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1950-1952

  Ribeiro, F K C ^a   Lemos, E M ^a   Hadad, D J ^a   Leao S C ^b   Viana Niero, C ^b   Dietze, R ^a   Johnson, J L ^c   Eisenach, K D ^d   Palaci, M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 66749177797     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00626-09     Document Type: Article

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