Title: False Positive Culture Results from Patient Tissue Specimens Due to Contamination of RPMI Medium with Cryptococcus albidus Running title: False Positive Cultures Due to C. albidus Contamination

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  • Lisa G. Winston
  • Marguerite Roemer
  • Carol Goodman
  • Barbara Haller
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*Corresponding author: Mailing address: San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Avenue, Room 5H22, San Francisco, California 94110 Phone: 415-206-8703 Fax: 415-206-8965 Email: [email protected] AC CE PT ED Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. J. Clin. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/JCM.02447-06 JCM Accepts, published online ahead of print on 21 February 2007

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تاریخ انتشار 2007