Combining culture techniques for bartonella: The best of both worlds

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1363-1368

  Lynch, Tarah ^a   Iverson, Jennifer ^a   Kosoy, Michael ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BARTONELLA TAMIAE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INSECT CELL CULTURE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; INSECTS; TEMPERATURE;

BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79953838384     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02403-10     Document Type: Article

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