Culturing stool specimens for Campylobacter spp., Pennsylvania, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 484-487

  M'ikanatha, Nkuchia M ^a,b   Dettinger, Lisa A ^a   Perry, Amanda ^a   Rogers, Paul ^a   Reynolds, Stanley M ^a   Nachamkin, Irving ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFOPERAZONE; NALIDIXIC ACID; VANCOMYCIN;

AEROMONAS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; GRAM STAINING; INCUBATION TIME; LABORATORY TEST; PLESIOMONAS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; FECES; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MICROBIOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIA; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84857535923     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1803.111266     Document Type: Article

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