Agar dilution susceptibility testing

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Protocols

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 91-103

  Hanlon, Ann ^a   Taylor, Merwyn ^a   Dick, James D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

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