Antimicrobial susceptibility testing protocols
By: edited by Richard Schwalbe, Lynn Steele-Moore, Avery C. Goodwin
Contributors: Schwalbe, Richard; Steele-Moore, Lynn; Goodwin, Avery C
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780824741006
Subjects: Microbial sensitivity tests; Drug resistance in microorganisms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: An overview of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and its impact on antimicrobial susceptibility tests / Arthur L. Barry; title: Antimicrobial classifications : drugs for bugs / Cassandra B. Calderón and Beulah Perdue Sabundayo; title: Disk diffusion test and gradient methodologies / Audrey Wanger; title: Macro- and microdilution methods of antimicrobial susceptibility testing / Sadaf Qaiyumi; title: Automated systems : an overview / Sheryl Stuckey; title: Agar dilution susceptibility testing / Ann Hanlon, Merwyn Taylor, and James D. Dick; title: Susceptibility-testing protocols for antibiograms and preventive surveillance : a continum of data collection, analysis, and presentation / John G. Thomas and Nancy T. Rector; title: Anaerobe antimicrobial susceptibility testing / Darcie E. Roe-Carpenter; title: Antifungal susceptibility testing of yeasts / Ana Espinel-Ingroff and Emilia Cantón; title: Antifungal susceptibility testing of filamentous fungi / Ana Espinel-Ingroff and Emilia Cantón; title: Susceptibility testing of mycobacteria / Barbara A. Brown-Elliott, Samuel Cohen, and Richard J. Wallace Jr.; title: Methods for determing bactericidal activity and antimicrobial interactions : synergy testing, time-kill curves, and population analysis / Punam Verma; title: Serum bactericidal testing / Harriette Nadler and Michael Dowzicky; title: Bioassay methods for antimicrobial and antifungal agents / Donald H. Pitkin and Estrella Martin-Mazuelos; title: Molecular methods for bacterial strain typing / Sophie Michaud and Donna Berg; title: Pharmacy and microbiology : interactive synergy / Beulah Perdue Sabundayo and Cassandra B. Calderón; title: Interactions between clinicians and the microbiology laboratory / John H. Powers; title: Clinical microbiology in the development of new antimicrobial agents / C. Douglas Webb and Barbara G. Painter