Rapid discrimination of bacterial species with different ampicillin susceptibility levels by means of flow cytometry

Cytometry

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 267-272

  Walberg, Mette ^a   Gaustad, Peter ^a   Steen, Harald B ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ampicillin susceptibility; Escherichia coli; Flow cytometry; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Polymicrobial culture

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOGRAM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0030815260     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19971101)29:3<267::AID-CYTO10>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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