Recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum treated with cetyl pyridinium chloride

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4189-4190

  Sankar, Manimuthu Mani ^a   Kumar, Parveen ^a   Munawwar, Arshi ^a   Singh, Jitendra ^a   Parashar, Deepak ^a   Singh, Sarman ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETYLPYRIDINIUM SALT;

BACTERIUM DETECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CETYLPYRIDINIUM; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 71549158837     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01295-09     Document Type: Letter

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