Advances in laboratory diagnostic technologies in clinical microbiology and what this means for clinical practice

Clinical Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 347-352

  Dokouhaki, Pouneh ^a   Blondeau, Joseph M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; MONOBACTAM; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; HELMINTHIASIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 84865515619     PISSN: 20449038     EISSN: 20449046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/cpr.12.32     Document Type: Editorial

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