Evaluation of an automated blood culture system for the isolation of bacteria from equine synovial fluid

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-87

  Dumoulin, Michèle ^a   Pille, Frederik ^a   Van den Abeele, Anne Marie ^b   Haesebrouck, Freddy ^a   Oosterlinck, Maarten ^a   Gasthuys, Frank ^a   Martens, Ann ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b AZ Sint Lucas   (Belgium)

Author keywords

BACTEC 9050; Bacterial culture; Horse; Synovial infection; Time to detection

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HORSE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVITIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CULTURE MEDIA; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FUNGI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; SEPSIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 77949315524     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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