International external quality assurance for laboratory identification and typing of Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococci)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1475-1482

  Afshar, Baharak ^a   Broughton, Karen ^a   Creti, Roberta ^b   Decheva, Antoaneta ^c   Hufnagel, Markus ^d   Kriz, Paula ^e   Lambertsen, Lotte ^f   Lovgren, Marguerite ^g   Melin, Pierrette ^h   Orefici, Graziella ^b   Poyart, Claire ⁱ   Radtke, Andreas ^j   Rodriguez Granger, Javier ^k   Sørensen, Uffe B Skov ^l   Telford, John ^m   Valinsky, Lea ⁿ   Zachariadou, Levantia ^o  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^f STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

ⁱ université Paris Cité   (France)

^j TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^k HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^l AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^m NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS   (Italy)

ⁿ National Streptococcus Reference Centre   (Israel)

^o AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOSURVEILLANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEROTYPING; STANDARDIZATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; PREGNANCY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 79953887349     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02365-10     Document Type: Article

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