Conventional and automated diagnostic methods
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Henry Stewart Talks
2010, 2010
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| Series: | Antibiotic resistance : from genes to global prevalence
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| Collection: | Henry Stewart Talks - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Antibiotic susceptibility testing: rationale
- Disc susceptibility test
- Determination of MICs
- Broth vs. agar dilution
- Standardizing methods
- BSAC standardized testing method
- BSAC vs. CLSI
- MIC determination by E-test
- MICs of multiple antibiotics for the same bacterial strain
- Testing E. coli
- Interpretation of susceptibility tests
- Defining susceptibility and resistance
- European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility testing (EUCAST)
- EUCAST MIC breakpoints
- Clinical breakpoints
- Microbiological breakpoints
- Establishing breakpoints
- Automating antibiotic susceptibility testing
- Vitek 2 AST system
- Advanced expert system
- Interpretive reading: the limits
- The future