Comment on: Performance of the oxoid M.I.C. Evaluator™ strips compared with the Etest® assay and BSAC agar dilution

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1192-1193

  Carvalhaes, Cecilia G ^a   Campana, Eloiza H ^a   Barbosa, Paula P ^a   Paula, Ana M ^b   Gales, Ana C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic gradient strips; Antimicrobial gradient strips; M.I.C.E.; MICE; MICs

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; OXACILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; AGAR DILUTION; ANALYZER; BROTH DILUTION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPSILOMETER TEST; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 79954620320     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr065     Document Type: Letter

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