Identification and characterization of breakthrough contaminants associated with the conventional isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1292-1298

  McClean, Michaela ^a,b   Stanley, Timothy ^a   Stanley, Sharon ^a   Maeda, Yasunori ^b,c   Goldsmith, Colin E ^c   Shepherd, Richard ^c   Cherie Millar, B ^c   Dooley, James S G ^b   Moore, John E ^b,c  

^a ROYAL GROUP OF HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL RNA; CHLORHEXIDINE; NALIDIXIC ACID; OXALIC ACID; POLYMYXIN B; RNA 16S; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 80051752406     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.030619-0     Document Type: Article

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