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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2013

Sampling and decontamination method for culture of nontuberculous mycobacteria in respiratory samples of cystic fibrosis patients.

Annelies De Bel, Deborah De Geyter, Iris De Schutter, Christine Mouton, Isabelle Wellemans, Laurence Hanssens, Petra Schelstraete, Anne Malfroot, Denis Pierard

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Annelies De BelDepartment of Microbiology and Infection Control.
Deborah De Geyter
Iris De Schutter
Christine Mouton
Isabelle Wellemans
Laurence Hanssens
Petra Schelstraete
Anne Malfroot
Denis Pierard

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We confirmed that chlorhexidine decontamination yielded more nontuberculous mycobacteria than did the N-acetyl-l-cysteine-NaOH-oxalic acid procedure from respiratory samples of cystic fibrosis patients on solid cultures. However, this improved recovery is mostly balanced if the latter is combined with liquid culture. Furthermore, none of the 145 cough swabs, used to sample young children, cultured positive, suggesting that swabs are low-quality samples.

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AdolescentAdultAnti-Infective Agents, LocalChildChild, PreschoolChlorhexidineCystic FibrosisFemaleHumansInfantMaleMiddle AgedMycobacterium Infections, NontuberculousNontuberculous MycobacteriaSpecimen HandlingSputumAnti-Infective Agents, LocalChlorhexidine

Identifiers

PMID24048532
PMCPMC3838033

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