Estimated Impact of Low Isolate Numbers on the Reliability of Cumulative Antibiogram Data

ABSTRACT Antibiograms are cumulative reports of antimicrobial susceptibility results that are used to guide the selection of empirical antibiotic therapy. Although Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines recommend including only organisms that have at least 30 isolates in an an...

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Main Authors: Christian Tran, John Hargy, Bryan Hess, Matthew A. Pettengill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-02-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.03939-22