Producing standards, producing the Nordic region: Antibiotic susceptibility testing, from 1950-1970

Science in Context

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 215-248

  Lie, Anne Kveim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECT; FINLAND; HISTORY; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; SCANDINAVIA; STANDARD;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FINLAND; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 84899761450     PISSN: 02698897     EISSN: 14740664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269889714000052     Document Type: Article

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