Narrow-spectrum cephalosporin susceptibility testing of Escherichia coli with the BD phoenix automated system: Questionable utility of cephalothin as a predictor of cephalexin susceptibility

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3762-3763

  Zhang, Sean X ^a,c   Parisian, Fern ^a   Yau, Yvonne ^a,c   Fuller, Jeffrey D ^c   Poutanen, Susan M ^b,c   Richardson, Susan E ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN;

ACCURACY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BROTH MICRODILUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LABORATORY TEST; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALEXIN; CEPHALOTHIN; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 36348973579     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00968-07     Document Type: Article

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