BSAC standardized disc susceptibility testing method (version 5)

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 511-529

  Andrews, Jenny M ^a  

^a CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breakpoints; Disc testing; MICs

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFACLOR; CEFALOTIN; CEFIXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; MOXIFLOXACIN; NEOMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TELITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; BLOOD CULTURE; CAMPYLOBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TIME; INOCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA; PSEUDOMONAS; RELIABILITY; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; STANDARDIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CULTURE MEDIA; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 33747873902     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkl277     Document Type: Article

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