A decade of development of chromogenic culture media for clinical microbiology in an era of molecular diagnostics

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 449-479

  Perry, John D ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae; Chromogenic media; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Molecular methods

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE; CULTURE MEDIUM;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CANDIDA; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VIBRIO; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; BACTERIUM; DEVICES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

BACTERIA; CHROMOGENIC COMPOUNDS; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 85011971424     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00097-16     Document Type: Review

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