Challenging a dogma: antimicrobial susceptibility testing breakpoints for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

• Principais autores: Kristian Ängeby (Autor), Pontus Juréen (Autor), Gunnar Kahlmeter (Autor), Sven E Hoffner (Autor), Thomas Schön (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: The World Health Organization.
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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...