How difficult is it to achieve compliance with the quality control requirements of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute's guideline M42-A?

Aquaculture

Volumn 276, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 1-4

  Smith, Peter ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Disc diffusion; Epidemiological cut off values; Inter laboratory variation; M42 A; Normalised resistance interpretation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; LABORATORY METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD (REFERENCE);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 41549147180     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2008.02.017     Document Type: Article

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