Editorial Response: Making Antifungal Susceptibility Testing a Clinically Useful Tool
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Antifungal susceptibility testing.
Antifungal susceptibility testing has been in routine use now for more than 15 years and has become a useful tool for clinicians who are faced with difficult treatment decision. Although most clinicians order susceptibility testing, much confusion still exists regarding the use of the results. Sufficient data have been generated to determine susceptibility trends for specific fungi against spec...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.2.248