Titre :
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Failure to recognize rapidly growing mycobacteria in a proficiency testing sample without specific request : A wider diagnostic problem ? (1998)
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Auteurs :
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A. VON GRAEVENITZ ;
V. PUNTER-STREIT ;
Department of Medical Microbiology. University of Zurich. Zurich. CHE
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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European journal of epidemiology (vol. 14, n° 5, 1998)
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Pagination :
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519-520
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Bactérie
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Epidémiologie
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Bactériologie
;
Homme
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Suisse
;
Europe
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Résumé :
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[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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