Evaluation of the MB/BACT automated mycobacteria culture system versus culture on Lowenstein medium

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 339-343

  Garcia, Fernando Garcia ^a   Angulo, Gonzalo Piédrola ^a   Garcia, Federico Garcia ^a   Quero, Jose Hernández ^b   Vela, María Del Carmen Maroto ^a   Ureña, Juan Román ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic methods; Culture; Mycobacteria; Traditional culture

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; INCUBATION TIME; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 7344243233     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1998.tb00069.x     Document Type: Article

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