Positive predictive value of leeds Acinetobacter medium for environmental surveillance of Acinetobacter baumannii

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4416-

  McConnell, Michael J ^a   Pérez Romero, Pilar ^a   Lepe, José Antonio ^a   Pérez Ordóñez, Ana ^a   Valencia, Raquel ^a   Vázquez Barba, Isabel ^a   Pachón, Jerónimo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOSURVEILLANCE; BURKHOLDERIA; CITROBACTER; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEEDS ACINETOBACTER MEDIUM; LETTER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA; STENOTROPHOMONAS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 82455220382     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05412-11     Document Type: Letter

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