Influence of analysis conditions for antimicrobial susceptibility test data on susceptibility rates

Analysis and Presentation of Cumulative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Data – The Influence of Different Parameters in a Routine Clinical Microbiology Laboratory

INTRODUCTION Many clinical microbiology laboratories report on cumulative antimicrobial susceptibility testing (cAST) data on a regular basis. Criteria for generation of cAST reports, however, are often obscure and inconsistent. Whereas the CLSI has published a guideline for analysis and presentation of cAST data, national guidelines directed at clinical microbiology laboratories are not availa...

A rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test for Bacillus anthracis.

An effective public health response to a deliberate release of Bacillus anthracis will require a rapid distribution of antimicrobial agents for postexposure prophylaxis and treatment. However, conventional antimicrobial susceptibility testing for B. anthracis requires a 16- to 20-h incubation period. To reduce this time, we have combined a modified broth microdilution (BMD) susceptibility testi...

Surface Plasmon Resonance Biotechnology for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test

How-foo Chen1, Chi-Hung Lin2,3,4, Chun-Yao Su1, Hsin-Pai Chen5 and Ya-Ling Chiang1 1Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang Ming University, Taipei 2Institute of Microbiology & Immunology, National Yang Ming University, Taipei 3Taipei City Hospital 4Department of Surgery, Veteran General Hospital, Taipei 5Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan and School ...

Analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility results using microcomputers.

A computer program has been developed on an IBM-PC-compatible microcomputer to analyze antimicrobial susceptibility results of large numbers of organisms tested against a variety of antimicrobial agents. For each species, the output includes the numbers, percentages, cumulative numbers, and cumulative percentages of organisms inhibited at different concentrations of each drug, the MICs for 50 a...

Study of antimicrobial susceptibility and plasmid analysis of Escherichia coli in Iran, Urmia