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List of works by Enrico M. Tortoli

A Case-Control Study for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Risk Factors in Four European Countries

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

A New Model of Chronic Mycobacterium abscessus Lung Infection in Immunocompetent Mice

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

A case of mild pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium shimoidei with a favorable outcome

scientific article published on 07 August 2013

A real-time PCR assay for detection of isoniazid resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates

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Activity of 16 Antimicrobial Agents Against Drug-Resistant Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scholarly article by Lanfranco Fattorini et al published January 1999 in Microbial Drug Resistance

Activity of seven antimicrobial agents, alone and in combination, against AIDS-associated isolates of Mycobacterium avium complex.

scientific article published on September 1995

Association of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates of BOVIS and Central Asian (CAS) genotypic lineages with extrapulmonary disease

scientific article published on 19 March 2009

Bactericidal activity of moxifloxacin against pneumococci

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Beijing/W Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Italy

scientific article published on May 2004

Burden of unidentifiable mycobacteria in a reference laboratory.

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Cervical Lymphadenitis Due to Mycobacterium bohemicum

scientific article published in 2000

Cervical lymphadenitis due to an unusual mycobacterium

scientific article (publication date: April 1997)

Challenges and perspectives in the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

Characterization of 17 strains belonging to the Mycobacterium simiae complex and description of Mycobacterium paraense sp. nov.

scientific article published on 8 December 2014

Characterization of a novel variant of Mycobacterium chimaera

scientific article published on 14 June 2012

Characterization of an isolate belonging to the newly described species Mycobacterium hassiacum

scientific article published in March 1998

Characterization of mycobacteria from a major Brazilian outbreak suggests that revision of the taxonomic status of members of the Mycobacterium chelonae-M. abscessus group is needed

scientific article published on July 2009

Characterization of two new pigmented mycobacteria isolates

scientific article published in July 2006

Ciprofloxacin resistance in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Italian patients

scientific article published in January 1995

Clinical features of infections caused by new nontuberculous mycobacteria, Part II

Clinical features of infections caused by new nontuberculous mycobacteria, part I

Clinical validation of Xpert MTB/RIF for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis

scientific article published on 12 January 2012

Commercial DNA probes for mycobacteria incorrectly identify a number of less frequently encountered species

scientific article published on 11 November 2009

Comparison of Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibility testing performed with BACTEC 460TB (Becton Dickinson) and MB/BacT (Organon Teknika) systems

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Countrywide implementation of whole genome sequencing: an opportunity to improve tuberculosis management, surveillance and contact tracing in low incidence countries.

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Cultural studies on two isolates of “Mycobacterium genavense” from patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Delayed Diagnosis of Disseminated Mycobacterium genavense Infection in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Negative Young Woman

Detection and Molecular Characterization of Mycobacterium celatum as a Cause of Splenitis in a Domestic Ferret (Mustela putorius furo)

Detection of embB codon 306 mutations in ethambutol resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from sputum samples: a low-cost, rapid approach.

scientific article published on February 2001

Detection of rifampin-resistant genotypes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by reverse hybridization assay.

scientific article published in March 2011

Disseminated Mycobacterium genavense infection after immunosuppressive therapy shows underlying new composite heterozygous mutations of β1 subunit of IL-12 receptor gene

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Disseminated Mycobacterium scrofulaceum infection in a child with interferon-gamma receptor 1 deficiency

scientific article published on 31 October 2009

Disseminated infection due to Mycobacterium celatum in patient with AIDS

scientific article published in The Lancet

EMPIRIC APPROACH USING CEPHALOSPORINS IN VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA (VAP)

scholarly article by A. Raffaele De Gaudio et al published January 1998 in Critical Care Medicine

Early detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in BACTEC cultures by ligase chain reaction.

scientific article published on September 1998

Epidemiology of cervico-facial pediatric lymphadenitis as a result of nontuberculous mycobacteria

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Evaluation of INNO-LiPA MYCOBACTERIA v2: improved reverse hybridization multiple DNA probe assay for mycobacterial identification

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Evaluation of a commercial DNA probe assay for the identification of Mycobacterium kansasii

scientific article published on 01 March 1994

Evaluation of a commercial ligase chain reaction kit (Abbott LCx) for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in pulmonary and extrapulmonary specimens.

scientific article published on September 1997

Evaluation of a rapid immunochromatographic test for the serologic diagnosis of tuberculosis in Italy

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Evaluation of automated BACTEC MGIT 960 system for testing susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to four major antituberculous drugs: comparison with the radiometric BACTEC 460TB method and the agar plate method of proportion

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Evaluation of moxifloxacin activity in vitro against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, including resistant and multidrug-resistant strains

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Evaluation of the BDProbeTec ET system for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in pulmonary and extrapulmonary samples: a multicenter study

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Evaluation of the new GenoType Mycobacterium assay for identification of mycobacterial species

scientific article published in February 2006

First case of Mycobacterium haemophilum infection in an AIDS patient in Italy**

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Fluoroquinolones versus chloramphenicol in the therapy of typhoid fever: A clinical and microbiological study

scholarly article by Giuseppe Morelli et al published October 1992 in Current Therapeutic Research

Genetic diversity of human isolates of Mycobacterium bovis assessed by spoligotyping and Variable Number Tandem Repeat genotyping

scientific article published in 2011

Genetic diversity, determined on the basis of katG463 and gyrA95 polymorphisms, Spoligotyping, and IS6110 typing, of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from Italy

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GenoType MTBDRsl performance on clinical samples with diverse genetic background

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HPLC does not differentiate Mycobacterium paratuberculosis from Mycobacterium avium

article published in 1999

Heterogeneity and clonality among isolates of Mycobacterium kansasii: implications for epidemiological and pathogenicity studies

scientific article (publication date: August 1997)

High-performance liquid chromatography and identification of mycobacteria

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Human infections due to Mycobacterium lentiflavum

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Identification of 54 mycobacterial species by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the hsp65 gene.

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Identification of mycobacteria by using INNO LiPA.

scientific article published on August 2002

Identification of the newly described Mycobacterium poriferae from tuberculous lesions of snakehead fish (Channa striatus)

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Impact of Genotypic Studies on Mycobacterial Taxonomy: the New Mycobacteria of the 1990s

scientific article published on April 1, 2003

Impact of immigration on tuberculosis in a low-incidence area of Italy: a molecular epidemiological approach

scientific article published in November 2010

In house colorimetric reverse hybridisation assay for detection of the mutation most frequently associated with resistance to isoniazid in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published in August 2009

Infection due to a novel mycobacterium, mimicking multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 14 October 2009

Infections due to the newly described species Mycobacterium parascrofulaceum

scientific article published on August 2005

Inteins in mycobacterial GyrA are a taxonomic character.

scientific article published on February 1998

Inventory study of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in the European Union

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Investigation on several phenotypic features in two strains of Mycobacterium genavense.

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Is real-time PCR better than conventional PCR for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex detection in clinical samples?

scientific article published on 12 June 2012

Isolation and identification of mycobacteria from captive reptiles.

scientific article published on 31 May 2012

Isolation of Mycobacterium shimoidei from a patient with cavitary pulmonary disease

scientific article published on August 1, 1991

Isolation of a novel sequevar of Mycobacterium flavescens from the synovial fluid of an AIDS patient

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Isolation of a novel strain of Mycobacterium iranicum from a woman in the United States

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Isolation of an unusual mycobacterium from an AIDS patient.

scientific article published on September 1996

Latin grammar headaches

scientific article published on December 2003

Lethal Mycobacterium massiliense sepsis, Italy

scientific article published on June 2008

Management of patients with multidrug-resistant/extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe: a TBNET consensus statement

scientific article published on 23 March 2014

Microbiological features and clinical relevance of new species of the genus Mycobacterium

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Molecular analysis of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium bovis recovered from humans in Italy

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Multicenter Comparison of ESP Culture System II with BACTEC 460TB and with Lowenstein-Jensen Medium for Recovery of Mycobacteria from Different Clinical Specimens, Including Blood

scientific article published on May 1, 1998

Multicenter evaluation of mycobacteria growth indicator tube (MGIT) compared with the BACTEC radiometric method, BBL biphasic growth medium and Löwenstein—Jensen medium

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

Multicenter evaluation of two commercial amplification kits (Amplicor, Roche and LCx, Abbott) for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in pulmonary and extrapulmonary specimens

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Multicentre evaluation of a biphasic culture system for recovery of mycobacteria from clinical specimens.

scientific article published on June 1993

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the Florence province from 1992 to 1995.

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Mutations in mutT genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates of Beijing genotype

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Mutations responsible for Mycobacterium tuberculosis isoniazid resistance in Italy.

scientific article published in January 2005

Mycobacterial testing in hospital laboratories: results from a questionnaire survey in Italy

scientific article published in November 2004

Mycobacterium abscessus hand-and-foot disease in children: rare or emerging disease?

scientific article published on May 2014

Mycobacterium alsiense, a novel, slowly growing species isolated from two patients with pulmonary disease

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Mycobacterium arosiense sp. nov., a slowly growing, scotochromogenic species causing osteomyelitis in an immunocompromised child

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Mycobacterium celeriflavum sp. nov., a rapidly growing scotochromogenic bacterium isolated from clinical specimens

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Mycobacterium colombiense sp. nov., a novel member of the Mycobacterium avium complex and description of MAC-X as a new ITS genetic variant

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Mycobacterium elephantis: not an exceptional finding in clinical specimens

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Mycobacterium europaeum sp. nov., a scotochromogenic species related to the Mycobacterium simiae complex

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Mycobacterium florentinum sp. nov., isolated from humans

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Mycobacterium fragae sp. nov., a non-chromogenic species isolated from human respiratory specimens.

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Mycobacterium genavense in AIDS patients, report of 24 cases in Italy and review of the literature

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Mycobacterium helveticum sp. nov., a novel slowly growing mycobacterial species associated with granulomatous lesions in adult swine

scientific article published in 2020

Mycobacterium insubricum sp. nov.

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Mycobacterium iranicum infection in HIV-infected patient, Iran.

scientific article published on October 2013

Mycobacterium iranicum sp. nov., a rapidly growing scotochromogenic species isolated from clinical specimens on three different continents

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Mycobacterium kansasii, species or complex? Biomolecular and epidemiological insights

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Mycobacterium lentiflavum infection in immunocompetent patient

scientific article published on January 2005

Mycobacterium lentiflavum, an emerging pathogen?

scientific article published in 2006

Mycobacterium malmoense in Italy: the modern Norman invasion?

scientific article published on 01 April 1997

Mycobacterium mantenii sp. nov., a pathogenic, slowly growing, scotochromogenic species

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Mycobacterium monacense sp. nov.

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Mycobacterium parmense sp. nov.

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Mycobacterium riyadhense sp. nov., a non-tuberculous species identified as Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by a commercial line-probe assay

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Mycobacterium sherrisii isolation from a patient with pulmonary disease

scientific article published on 23 August 2006

Mycobacterium sherrisii sp. nov., a slow-growing non-chromogenic species

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Mycobacterium shigaense sp. nov., a novel slowly growing scotochromogenic mycobacterium that produced nodules in an erythroderma patient with severe cellular immunodeficiency and a history of Hodgkin's disease

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex genetic diversity: mining the fourth international spoligotyping database (SpolDB4) for classification, population genetics and epidemiology

scientific article (publication date: 6 March 2006)

Mycobacterium tusciae sp. nov.

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Mycobacterium yongonense in pulmonary disease, Italy

scientific article published on November 2013

Nasal Mycobacterium kansasii infection in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Non Tuberculous Cutaneous Mycobacteriosis in a primary school in Rome: epidemiological and microbiological investigation.

scientific article published on July 2014

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria: patterns of isolation. A multi-country retrospective survey

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Nontuberculous mycobacteria in hospital water systems: application of HPLC for identification of environmental mycobacteria.

scientific article published in September 2003

On the valid publication of names of mycobacteria

Performance assessment of new multiplex probe assay for identification of mycobacteria.

scientific article published on March 2001

Phylogeny of the genus Mycobacterium: Many doubts, few certainties

scholarly article by Enrico M. Tortoli published June 2012 in Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Primary tuberculosis of the penis

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Proposal of reclassification of Mycobacterium celatum type 2 as Mycobacterium kyorinense

Proposal that Mycobacterium massiliense and Mycobacterium bolletii be united and reclassified as Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. bolletii comb. nov., designation of Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. abscessus subsp. nov. and emended description [...]

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Proposal to elevate Mycobacterium avium complex ITS sequevar MAC-Q to Mycobacterium vulneris sp. nov.

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Proposal to elevate the genetic variant MAC-A, included in the Mycobacterium avium complex, to species rank as Mycobacterium chimaera sp. nov

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Pseudo-Whipple disease caused by atypical mycobacteriosis in AIDS: a clinical and electron microscopic study of 2 cases

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Pseudoepidemic from Mycobacterium gordonae due to a contaminated automatic bronchoscope washing machine

scientific article published in May 2002

Pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium arosiense, an easily misidentified pathogenic novel mycobacterium

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Pulmonary infection due to Mycobacterium szulgai , case report and review of the literature

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Radiometric susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium xenopi

scientific article published on 01 April 1995

Rapid molecular TB diagnosis: evidence, policy making and global implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF.

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Rapid, simple, and culture-independent detection of rpsL codon 43 mutations that are highly predictive of streptomycin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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Results of different methods used for drug susceptibility of Mycobacteria (author's transl)

scientific article published on June 1, 1979

Same meat, different gravy: ignore the new names of mycobacteria

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Standard operating procedure for optimal identification of mycobacteria using 16S rRNA gene sequences

scientific article published on 28 September 2010

Successfully treated spondylodiscitis due to a previously unreported mycobacterium

scientific article published in January 2006

Survey of 150 strains belonging to the Mycobacterium terrae complex and description of Mycobacterium engbaekii sp. nov., Mycobacterium heraklionense sp. nov. and Mycobacterium longobardum sp. nov.

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Taxonomic and phylogenetic status of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in a Caribbean setting.

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The first case of Mycobacterium sherrisii disseminated infection in a child with AIDS

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The geographic diversity of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from pulmonary samples: an NTM-NET collaborative study

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

The new mycobacteria: an update

scientific article published on November 2006

The new phylogenesis of the genus Mycobacterium

scientific article published in 2015

The new phylogeny of the genus Mycobacterium: The old and the news.

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

The quantification of tuberculous disease in an Italian area and the estimation of underreporting by means of record linkage

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The use of microbead-based spoligotyping for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex to evaluate the quality of the conventional method: providing guidelines for Quality Assurance when working on membranes

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Three-year longitudinal study of genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Tuscany, Italy

scientific article published on 25 April 2007

Treatment of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease: an official ATS/ERS/ESCMID/IDSA clinical practice guideline

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Treatment outcome definitions in nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease: an NTM-NET consensus statement.

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Type frequency and antimicrobial susceptibility of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex strains isolated in Italy from AIDS and non-AIDS patients.

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Unusual Methylobacterium fujisawaense Infection in a Patient with Acute Leukaemia Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: First Case Report

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Unusual high-performance liquid chromatography profile of a strain of Mycobacterium avium

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Use of BACTEC MGIT 960 for recovery of mycobacteria from clinical specimens: multicenter study.

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Use of commercial cards for freeing DNA from mycobacterial strains.

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Use of the BacT/Alert MB mycobacterial blood culture system for detection of mycobacteria in sterile body fluids other than blood

scientific article published on 24 December 2008

Use of the INNO LiPA Rif.TB for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA directly in clinical specimens and for simultaneous determination of rifampin susceptibility

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Utility of high-performance liquid chromatography for identification of mycobacterial species rarely encountered in clinical laboratories

scientific article published on 01 March 1995

Variation of the expression ofMycobacterium tuberculosis ppe44gene among clinical isolates

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Whole-Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium kyorinense.

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[Antimicrobical resistance of bacterial strains isolated in specimens of the respiratory tract (author's transl)]

scientific article published on 01 March 1976

[Intestinal mycobacterial infections in AIDS. Clinical course and treatment of infections caused by Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium kansasii, Mycobacterium genavense]

scientific article published on 01 November 1994

[Preliminary evaluations of the use of dodecyl di-(beta-oxyethyl)-benzylammonium chloride as a routine decontaminant for isolation of mycobacteria]

scientific article published on 01 September 1981

[The use of dodecyl-di(beta-oxyethyl) benzylammonium chloride (Bactofen) as a decontaminant in the cultural examination for detection of the Koch bacillus in sputum]

scientific article published on 01 June 1980

[Variations of antimicrobical resistance of bacteria isolated in specimens of the respiratory tract (author's transl)]

scientific article published on 01 June 1979