Evaluation of the new Vitek 2 ANC card for identification of medically relevant anaerobic bacteria

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1923-1926

  Mory, Francine ^a   Alauzet, Corentine ^a   Matuszeswski, Céline ^a   Riegel, Philippe ^b   Lozniewski, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTEROIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FUSOBACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEILLONELLA;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66749187724     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01778-08     Document Type: Article

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