Rate of recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from frozen acid-fast-bacillus smear-positive sputum samples subjected to long-term storage in Northwest Ethiopia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2557-2561

  Tessema, Belay ^a,b   Beer, Joerg ^b   Emmrich, Frank ^b,c   Sack, Ulrich ^b,c   Rodloff, Arne C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ETHIOPIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT RECOVERY; SPUTUM CULTURE;

CRYOPRESERVATION; ETHIOPIA; GERMANY; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79959852461     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00059-11     Document Type: Article

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