Impact of direct disk-diffusion testing on time to optimal antibiotic therapy

on direct sums of baer modules

the notion of baer modules was defined recently

Direct Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Testing for Staphylococcus aureus from Blood Cultures: Diagnostic Accuracy and Impact on Antimicrobial Stewardship

Direct Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Testing for Gram-negative Bacteria from Blood Cultures: Diagnostic Accuracy and Impact on Antimicrobial Stewardship

Impregnated disk method for antifungal antibiotic testing.

Sixteen clinical fungal isolates were tested for antibiotic susceptibility by using disks impregnated with growth medium and antibiotic. The procedure was easier to perform, less time consuming, and as reliable as other currently available methods.

Disk diffusion susceptibility testing of Nocardia species.

The effectiveness of 13 antimicrobial agents against 51 clinical isolates of Nocardia was determined with use of agar dilutions and disk diffusion method. Amikacin inhibited less than 90% of isolates and, like the other aminoglycosides, showed good correlation between minimal inhibitory concentrations and sizes of zones of inhibition around the disks. Both sulfisoxazole and trimethoprim-sulfame...