The International Circumpolar Surveillance Interlaboratory Quality Control Program for Streptococcus pneumoniae, 1999 to 2008

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 138-143

  Reasonover, A ^a   Zulz, T ^a   Bruce, M G ^a   Bruden, D ^a   Jette L ^c   Kaltoft, M ^d,e   Lambertsen, L ^d   Parkinson, A ^a   Rudolph, K ^a   Lovgren, M ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b National Centre for Streptococcus   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^d STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^e Abbott   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

AGAR DILUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BROTH DILUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPSILOMETER TEST; LABORATORY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLE SIZE; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ALASKA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CANADA; DENMARK; HUMANS; ICELAND; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 78650920117     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01238-10     Document Type: Article

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