Laboratories and regulator misled over antibiotic susceptibility test discs

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7895, 2013, Pages

  Cohen, Deborah ^a   Swift, Glenn ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFPODOXIME; CLAVULANIC ACID; METICILLIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; VANCOMYCIN;

ACCURACY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY DISK; ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEVICE APPROVAL; DISK DIFFUSION; DRUG CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KLEBSIELLA; LABORATORY DEVICE; LEGAL ASPECT; MATERIALS HANDLING; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICATION ERROR; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874043023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f837     Document Type: Article

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