Improved method for determining antibiotic susceptibility of flavobacterium columnare isolates by broth microdilution

Journal of Aquatic Animal Health

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 185-191

  Darwish, Ahmed M ^a   Farmer, Bradley D ^a   Hawke, John P ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CULTURE MEDIUM; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FISH; FISH DISEASE; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM COLUMNARE;

EID: 60849128835     PISSN: 08997659     EISSN: 15488667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/H07-047.1     Document Type: Article

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