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Titre :	Failure to recognize rapidly growing mycobacteria in a proficiency testing sample without specific request : A wider diagnostic problem ? (1998)
Auteurs :	A. VON GRAEVENITZ ; V. PUNTER-STREIT ; Department of Medical Microbiology. University of Zurich. Zurich. CHE
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	European journal of epidemiology (vol. 14, n° 5, 1998)
Pagination :	519-520
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Bactérie ; Epidémiologie ; Bactériologie ; Homme ; Suisse ; Europe
Résumé :	[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST LxR0xbp3. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Fifty participants in the Swiss External Quality Control Program in Bacteriology/Mycology received a diagnostic sample containing Mycobacterium fortuitum. Only 31 used some sort of acid-fast stains, and 13 reported the diagnosis of M. fortuitum or rapidly growing mycobacteria. We conclude that the presence of'rapid growers'in routine bacteriology samples is underestimated, and that acid-fast stains should be performed on suspicious Gram-positive rods.

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