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Comment on: Are susceptibility tests enough, or should laboratories still seek ESBLs and carbapenemases directly?
Sir, We read with interest the leading article ‘Are susceptibility tests enough, or should laboratories still seek ESBLs and carbapenemases directly?’ and would like to raise two issues. First, we share the authors’ concerns over the ability to successfully treat organisms with b-lactams whose MICs are close to the breakpoint. They point out that routine laboratories do not have the necessary p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/30077