Evaluation of antibiotic susceptibility test results: how guilty a laboratory could be?

• Published in: Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association
• Main Authors: Mohamed S. M. Nassar, Walaa A. Hazzah, Wafaa M. K. Bakr
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2019
• Subjects: CLSI; Mueller-Hinton agar; Inhibition zones; Disk diffusion method; Quality control; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Mueller
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42506-018-0006-1; https://doaj.org/article/06112a9038c54e45bbee98046e9fc673

Abstract Background The selection of an appropriate antimicrobial is a challenging task for clinicians. The Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method is one of the most widely practiced antimicrobial susceptibility tests (AST). It is affected by many factors among which are the media used. Mueller-Hinton ag...