Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: General Principles and Contemporary Practices
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Antimicrobial susceptibility testing: a review of general principles and contemporary practices.
An important task of the clinical microbiology laboratory is the performance of antimicrobial susceptibility testing of significant bacterial isolates. The goals of testing are to detect possible drug resistance in common pathogens and to assure susceptibility to drugs of choice for particular infections. The most widely used testing methods include broth microdilution or rapid automated instru...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/513938