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

• Main Authors: Mohamed S. M. Nassar (Author), Walaa A. Hazzah (Author), Wafaa M. K. Bakr (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: SpringerOpen, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...