Performance of the Ogawa-Kudoh method for isolation of mycobacteria in a laboratory with large-scale workload

Revista Argentina de Microbiologia

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 87-90

  Rivas, C ^a   Coitinho, C ^a   Dafond, V ^a   Corbo, M ^a   Baldjian, M ^a  

^a Comisión Honoraria para la Lucha Antituberculosa Y Enfermedades Prevalentes Centro de Referencia Nacional para Micobacterias Departamento Laboratorio ^*  (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Culture; Kudoh; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Sputum samples

Indexed keywords

SODIUM HYDROXIDE; ACETYLCYSTEINE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KUDOH METHOD; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OGAWA METHOD; SPUTUM CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; URUGUAY; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WORKLOAD;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DECONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; URUGUAY; WORKLOAD;

EID: 77953941923     PISSN: 03257541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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