Impact of inter-lab variation on the estimation of epidemiological cut-off values for disc diffusion susceptibility test data for Aeromonas salmonicida

Aquaculture

Volumn 272, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 168-179

  Smith, Pete ^a   Ruane, Neil M ^b   Douglas, Iain ^a   Carroll, Cyril ^a   Kronvall, Göran ^c   Fleming, Gerard T A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aeromonas salmonicida; Antimicrobial susceptibility; Disc diffusion; Laboratory specific cut off values; Normalised resistance interpretation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; DRUG; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; IRELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AEROMONAS SALMONICIDA;

EID: 35748968206     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2007.07.216     Document Type: Article

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