The usefulness of changing focus during examination using Gram staining as initial diagnostic clue for infective tuberculosis

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 571-574

  Atsukawa, Yoshiko ^a   Kawakami, Sayoko ^a   Asahara, Miwa ^a   Ishigaki, Shinobu ^a   Tanaka, Takashi ^a   Ono, Yasuo ^b   Nishiya, Hajime ^b   Fujisaki, Ryuichi ^a   Koga, Ichiro ^a   Ota, Yasuo ^a   Miyazawa, Yukihisa ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gram stain; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Ziehl Neelsen staining

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STAINING; ZIEHL NEELSEN STAINING;

EID: 80052857199     PISSN: 1341321X     EISSN: 14377780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10156-011-0216-3     Document Type: Article

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