Drone transport of microbes in blood and sputum laboratory specimens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2622-2625

  Amukele, Timothy K ^a   Street, Jeff ^a   Carroll, Karen ^a   Miller, Heather ^a   Zhang, Sean X ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRONE TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THERMOSTABILITY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE; BLOOD; HUMAN; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPUTUM; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

BLOOD; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPUTUM; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84991206319     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01204-16     Document Type: Article

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