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Preparation of a Blood Culture Pellet for Rapid Bacterial Identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing
Published on: October 15, 2014
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False-positive immunochromatographic CTX-M enzyme test from direct testing of a positive blood culture
Chung-Ho Lee1, Shuo Jiang2, Man-Ki Tong2
1Department of Clinical Pathology, Kwong Wah Hospital, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong, China.
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