Evaluation of antibiotic susceptibility test results: how guilty a laboratory could be?

Abstract Background The selection of an appropriate antimicrobial is a challenging task for clinicians. The Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method is one of the most widely practiced antimicrobial susceptibility tests (AST). It is affected by many factors among which are the media used. Mueller-Hinton ag...

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Main Authors: Mohamed S. M. Nassar, Walaa A. Hazzah, Wafaa M. K. Bakr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42506-018-0006-1