Challenging a dogma: antimicrobial susceptibility testing breakpoints for Mycobacterium tuberculosis
The rise in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis makes it increasingly important that antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis produce clinically meaningful and technically reproducible results. Unfortunately, this is not always the case because mycobacteriology specialists hav...
Main Authors: | Kristian Ängeby, Pontus Juréen, Gunnar Kahlmeter, Sven E Hoffner, Thomas Schön |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
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Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862012000900014&lng=en&tlng=en |
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