Hair sheep blood, citrated or defibrinated, fulfills all requirements of blood agar for diagnostic microbiology laboratory tests

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Yeh, Ellen ^a   Pinsky, Benjamin A ^a   Banaei, Niaz ^a,b   Baron, Ellen Jo ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CITRIC ACID; FIBRIN;

ABIOTROPHIA DEFECTIVA; ACCURACY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; SAFETY; SHEEP; WOOL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN;

ABIOTROPHIA DEFECTIVA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; OVIS ARIES;

AGAR; ANIMALS; BLOOD; CITRIC ACID; CULTURE MEDIA; FIBRIN; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; SHEEP;

EID: 67650333299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006141     Document Type: Article

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