Quality assurance of antimicrobial susceptibility testing by disc diffusion
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Quality assurance of antimicrobial susceptibility testing by disc diffusion.
Quality assurance is essential to ensure the quality of antimicrobial susceptibility tests by diffusion methods. Routine internal quality control testing with a range of control strains is a major part of the quality assurance process, as it facilitates monitoring of the performance of the test. Most standardized methods include tables of acceptable zone size ranges for control strains and, in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1460-2091,0305-7453
DOI: 10.1093/jac/48.suppl_1.71