Multicenter clinical laboratory evaluation of a beta-lactamase disk assay employing a novel chromogenic cephalosporin, S1.

S1, a new chromogenic cephalosporin (International BioClinical, Inc., Portland, Oreg.), was used to detect beta-lactamase production among a variety of commonly encountered bacteria in a four-center collaborative study. Results of an S1 disk assay were compared with those obtained by a nitrocefin-ba...

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Main Authors: Doern, G, Jones, R, Gerlach, E, Washington, J, Biedenbach, D, Brueggemann, A, Erwin, M, Knapp, C, Raymond, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1995