Failure of quality control measures to prevent reporting of false resistance to imipenem, resulting in a pseudo-outbreak of imipenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 595-597

  Carmeli, Yehuda ^a,c   Eichelberger, Karen ^a   Soja, Don ^b   Dakos, Joanna ^a   Venkataraman, Lata ^a   DeGirolami, Paola ^a   Samore, Matthew ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMIPENEM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DILUTION; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD;

NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0031965582     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.2.595-597.1998     Document Type: Article

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