"The heat is on": Rapid microcalorimetric detection of mycobacteria in culture

Tuberculosis

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-59

  Braissant, O ^a   Wirz, D ^a   Gopfert B ^a   Daniels, A U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPOULE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EDITORIAL; INOCULATION; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; MICROCALORIMETRY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SIMULATION; THERMOGENESIS;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CALORIMETRY; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 75149171268     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2009.11.001     Document Type: Editorial

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