Journal article
Impact of freezing on the future utility of archived surveillance culture specimens
Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.28(7), pp.886-888
07/2007
DOI: 10.1086/518843
PMID: 17564997
Abstract
The ability to recover bacteria from frozen culture specimens has important implications. The purpose of this study was to validate the utility of frozen specimens for recovery of several gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial species by culture. Results demonstrate that 98% of 250 bacterial isolates identified on initial culture were subsequently recovered by culture of frozen specimens after a median storage period of 564 days.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Impact of freezing on the future utility of archived surveillance culture specimens
- Creators
- Heather P Green - University of Maryland, BaltimoreJudith A Johnson - University of Maryland, BaltimoreJon P Furuno - University of Maryland, BaltimoreSandra M Strauss - University of Maryland, BaltimoreEli N Perencevich - University of Maryland, BaltimoreEbbing Lautenbach - University of PennsylvaniaDong Lee - University of Maryland, BaltimoreAnthony D Harris - University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.28(7), pp.886-888
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1086/518843
- PMID
- 17564997
- ISSN
- 0899-823X
- eISSN
- 1559-6834
- Grant note
- R01 AI60859-01A1 / NIAID NIH HHS K23 AI01752-01A1 / NIAID NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2007
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983779495602771
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