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Validation of laboratory screening criteria for herpes simplex virus testing of cerebrospinal fluid. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.28
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Streptococcus pneumoniae antigen test using positive blood culture bottles as an alternative method to diagnose pneumococcal bacteremia. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.25
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Two decades of disseminated tuberculosis at a university medical center: the expanding role of mycobacterial blood culture. Clin Infect Dis (2003) 1.21
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MaiMwana women's groups: a community mobilisation intervention to improve mother and child health and reduce mortality in rural Malawi. Malawi Med J (2010) 1.17
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Selection of strains for quality assessment of the disk induction method for detection of inducible clindamycin resistance in Staphylococci: a CLSI collaborative study. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.10
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Controlled clinical comparison of plastic and glass bottles of BacT/ALERT FA medium for culturing organisms from blood of adult patients. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.07
Evaluating nurses' implementation of an infant-feeding counseling protocol for HIV-infected mothers: The Ban Study in Lilongwe, Malawi. AIDS Educ Prev (2009) 1.07
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Controlled clinical comparison of VersaTREK and BacT/ALERT blood culture systems. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.01
The (1,3){beta}-D-glucan test as an aid to early diagnosis of invasive fungal infections following lung transplantation. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.01
Tuberculosis in HIV voluntary counselling and testing centres in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Scand J Infect Dis (2010) 1.01
Multicenter evaluation of the Vitek 2 anaerobe and Corynebacterium identification card. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.01
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Controlled comparison of BACTEC 13A, MYCO/F LYTIC, BacT/ALERT MB, and ISOLATOR 10 systems for detection of mycobacteremia. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 0.99
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Slow progression of HIV-1 infection in a cohort of antiretroviral naïve hotel workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as defined by their CD4 cell slopes. Scand J Infect Dis (2008) 0.93
Multicenter study to determine disk diffusion and broth microdilution criteria for prediction of high- and low-level mupirocin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 0.93
Genotypic diversity of coagulase-negative staphylococci causing endocarditis: a global perspective. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 0.93
Effect of improved access to antiretroviral therapy on clinical characteristics of patients enrolled in the HIV care and treatment clinic, at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. BMC Public Health (2010) 0.93
Detection of inducible clindamycin resistance in staphylococci by broth microdilution using erythromycin-clindamycin combination wells. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 0.92
Broad-range (pan) Salmonella and Salmonella serotype typhi-specific real-time PCR assays: potential tools for the clinical microbiologist. Am J Clin Pathol (2005) 0.90
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