Risks of "Blind" Automated identification systems in medical microbiology

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3911-

  Mancini, Nicasio ^a   Burioni, Roberto ^a   Sanguinetti, Maurizio ^b   Clementi, Massimo ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

AUTOMATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; CANDIDA METAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA ORTHOPSILOSIS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; LETTER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MYCOLOGY; MYCOSES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; YEASTS;

EID: 85047686687     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02032-13     Document Type: Letter

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