Rapid Phenotypic and Genotypic Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Approaches for Use in the Clinical Laboratory

• Main Authors: Siham Hattab (Author), Adrienne H. Ma (Author), Zoon Tariq (Author), Ilianne Vega Prado (Author), Ian Drobish (Author), Rachel Lee (Author), Rebecca Yee (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The rapid rise in increasingly resistant bacteria has become a major threat to public health. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) is crucial in guiding appropriate therapeutic decisions and infection prevention practices for patient care. However, conventional culture-based AST methods are ti...