E test as susceptibility test for evaluation of Neisseria meningitidis isolates
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E test as susceptibility test and epidemiologic tool for evaluation of Neisseria meningitidis isolates.
The E test (AB Biodisk, Solna, Sweden), a new approach developed to test antimicrobial susceptibility, was compared with the agar dilution method for seven-drug antibiogram analysis of Neisseria meningitidis isolates. The overall E-test quantitative accuracy (+/- 1 log2 dilution) was 93% compared with that of agar dilution testing. The E test was then used to perform the susceptibility tests on...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.32.9.2341-2342.1994