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Comparison of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Campylobacter spp by the Agar Dilution and the Agar Disk Diffusion Methods
... including agar di- lution, broth microdilution, epsilometer test (E-test), and disk diffusion test, have been used to measure antimicrobial resis- tance in Campylobacter species (1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, ...
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Spiral gradient endpoint method compared to standard agar dilution for susceptibility testing of anaerobic gram negative bacilli
... A new method, the revised spiral gradient endpoint SGE method, was evaluated against the standard agar dilution SAD method by using a wide variety of anaerobic gram-negative bacilli 161 [r] ...
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Evaluation of mupirocin E test for determination of isolate susceptibility: comparison with standard agar dilution techniques
... Mupirocin E-test strips have been evaluated for their ease of use and accuracy in determining the suscep- tibilities of 171 strains of Staphylococcus spp., Streptococcus spp., Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella ca- ...
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Inaccuracy of the Disk Diffusion Method Compared with the Agar Dilution Method for Susceptibility Testing of Campylobacter spp
... The agar dilution method has been standardized by the CLSI for the susceptibility testing of Campylobacter species, and accord- ing to these standards, the disk diffusion method should be used only in ...
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Antipneumococcal Activities of Levofloxacin and Clarithromycin as Determined by Agar Dilution, Microdilution, E Test, and Disk Diffusion Methodologies
... Agar dilution MICs. Agar dilution MICs were determined according to stan- dard methods with Mueller-Hinton agar supplemented with 5% sheep blood, incorporating compounds at ...
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<p>Comparison of Microdilution Method with Agar Dilution Method for Antibiotic Susceptibility Test of <em>Neisseria gonorrhoeae</em></p>
... dif fi cult to culture in liquid medium. These characteristics erect a barrier to its antimicrobial susceptibility tests (ASTs). ASTs in N. gonorrhoeae include qualitative tests (including disc diffusion assay and ...
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Comparison of agar dilution, microdilution, and disk elution methods for measuring the synergy of cefotaxime and its metabolite against anaerobes
... Reproducibility of MICs of CTX and des-CTX against three control strains by microdilution, agar dilution, and broth-disk elution systems Test for susceptibility to b: MIC range p.g/ml of[r] ...
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Comparison of spiral gradient endpoint and agar dilution methods for susceptibility testing of anaerobic bacteria: a multilaboratory collaborative evaluation
... reference agar dilution method for anaerobes, which is not sufficiently accurate or reproducible to be used in such ...twofold dilution [14]) combined with the clustering of many MICs about the ...
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E Test versus Agar Dilution for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Viridans Group Streptococci
... median agar dilution susceptibility to penicillin in only two cases (accounting for 4 of 150 ...median agar dilution susceptibil- ities to penicillin and any of the clinical parameters ...
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Comparison of Broth Microdilution, E Test, and Agar Dilution Methods for Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli
... and dilution methods have been used in clinical, veterinary, and food microbiology ...the agar dilution method on plates supplemented with 5% blood and cultivated under microaerophilic conditions is ...
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Evaluation of the standardized disk diffusion and agar dilution antibiotic susceptibility test methods by using strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from the United States and Southeast Asia
... Evaluation of the Standardized Disk Diffusion and Agar Dilution Antibiotic Susceptibility Test Methods by Using Strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from the United States and Southeast Asia[r] ...
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Comparative evaluation of the E test, agar dilution, and broth microdilution for testing susceptibilities of Helicobacter pylori strains to 20 antimicrobial agents
... Helicobacter pylori is now accepted as a major cause of chronic type B gastritis (9, 14, 16), and there is a strong asso- ciation with peptic ulceration (16, 19, 30) and gastric cancer (10, 11, 23), two of the most ...
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Comparison of agar dilution, broth microdilution, disk diffusion, E test, and BACTEC radiometric methods for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of clinical isolates of the Nocardia asteroides complex
... the agar dilution, broth microdilution, and disk diffusion methods, the epsilometer test (E-test), and the BACTEC radiometric ...the agar dilution method were in least agreement ...
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Antipneumococcal Activity of Telithromycin by Agar Dilution, Microdilution, E Test, and Disk Diffusion Methodologies
... Agar dilution MICs. Agar dilution MICs were determined by the methods used in our laboratory (7) on Mueller-Hinton agar supplemented with 5% sheep blood, incorporating telithromycin and ...
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Assessment of Etest as an Alternative to Agar Dilution for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae
... the agar dilution test, for three antibiotics— ceftriaxone, cefixime, and cefpodoxime— against ...the agar dilution ...one-half dilution higher or ...the agar dilution ...
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Comparison of the E Test to agar dilution, broth microdilution, and agar diffusion susceptibility testing techniques by using a special challenge set of bacteria
... We compared the E Test with disk diffusion, broth microdilution, and agar dilution tests by using a challenge set of 195 gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria for 14 antimicrobial age[r] ...
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Comparing the disk-diffusion and agar dilution tests for Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial susceptibility testing
... However, the disk diffusion test has additional limita- tions that should be considered. Training and experience are required both for performing and reading the results. Further, the test is labor-intensive and has ...
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Tetrazolium reduction as an aid for streptococcal growth detection with agar dilution susceptibility testing
... When the MICs determined with and without the dye differed by more than one tested antibiotic concentration major discrepancies, macro-broth dilution susceptibility tests were performed [r] ...
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Comparison of agar disk diffusion, microdilution broth, and agar dilution for testing antimicrobial susceptibility of coagulase negative staphylococci
... A collection of 120 oxacillin-susceptible and 120 oxacillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci CNS from six tertiary care hospital laboratories were tested by agar disk diffusion[r] ...
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Collaborative investigation of broth microdilution and semisolid agar dilution for in vitro susceptibility testing of Candida albicans
... Overall, the level of interlaboratory agreement, regardless of antifungal agent or test method, was substantial with EMEM average kappa = 0.63, RPMI average kappa = 0.71, and SAAMF avera[r] ...
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