Phenotypic Variants of Bacterial Colonies in Microbiological Diagnostics: How Often Are They Indicative of Differing Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns?

Phenotypic Variants of Bacterial Colonies in Microbiological Diagnostics: How Often Are They Indicative of Differing Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns?

ABSTRACT Phenotypic variants (PV) are colonies of the same species in the same specimen with different morphological features. It is controversial whether antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) should be done for all PV. The objectives of this study were to quantify the proportion of differing a...

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Main Authors: Neele J. Froböse, Franziska Schuler, Alexander Mellmann, Marc T. Hennies, Evgeny A. Idelevich, Frieder Schaumburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-10-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
antimicrobial susceptibility testing
polyclonal infection
antimicrobial stewardship
phenotypic variant
microbiological diagnostics
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/Spectrum.00555-21

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