| Description |
1 online resource (414 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
An overview of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and its impact on antimicrobial susceptibility tests / Arthur L. Barry -- Antimicrobial classifications : drugs for bugs / Cassandra B. Calderón and Beulah Perdue Sabundayo -- Disk diffusion test and gradient methodologies / Audrey Wanger -- Macro- and microdilution methods of antimicrobial susceptibility testing / Sadaf Qaiyumi -- Automated systems : an overview / Sheryl Stuckey -- Agar dilution susceptibility testing / Ann Hanlon, Merwyn Taylor, and James D. Dick -- Susceptibility-testing protocols for antibiograms and preventive surveillance : a continum of data collection, analysis, and presentation / John G. Thomas and Nancy T. Rector |
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Anaerobe antimicrobial susceptibility testing / Darcie E. Roe-Carpenter -- Antifungal susceptibility testing of yeasts / Ana Espinel-Ingroff and Emilia Cantón -- Antifungal susceptibility testing of filamentous fungi / Ana Espinel-Ingroff and Emilia Cantón -- Susceptibility testing of mycobacteria / Barbara A. Brown-Elliott, Samuel Cohen, and Richard J. Wallace Jr. -- Methods for determing bactericidal activity and antimicrobial interactions : synergy testing, time-kill curves, and population analysis / Punam Verma |
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Serum bactericidal testing / Harriette Nadler and Michael Dowzicky -- Bioassay methods for antimicrobial and antifungal agents / Donald H. Pitkin and Estrella Martin-Mazuelos -- Molecular methods for bacterial strain typing / Sophie Michaud and Donna Berg -- Pharmacy and microbiology : interactive synergy / Beulah Perdue Sabundayo and Cassandra B. Calderón -- Interactions between clinicians and the microbiology laboratory / John H. Powers -- Clinical microbiology in the development of new antimicrobial agents / C. Douglas Webb and Barbara G. Painter |
| Summary |
Gives laboratory personnel an integrated resource for lab-based techniques and charts within the contextual role of clinical microbiology in modern medicine. This book includes protocols extrapolated from the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute as well as nonstandardized procedures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
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Microbial sensitivity tests.
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Microbial Sensitivity Tests -- methods.
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Microbial Sensitivity Tests -- standards.
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Anti-Bacterial Agents.
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Antifungal Agents.
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Drug Resistance, Fungal.
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Drug Resistance, Microbial.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goodwin, Avery C.
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Schwalbe, Richard.
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Steele-Moore, Lynn.
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| ISBN |
1281122203 |
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1420014498 (electronic bk.) |
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9781281122209 |
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9781420014495 (electronic bk.) |
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