Antimicrobial susceptibility testing protocols
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Richard Schwalbe; Lynn Steele-Moore; Avery C Goodwin
- ناشر : Boca Raton : CRC Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2007
- شابک / ISBN : 9780824741006
Description
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. 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. 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.
Defines the role of a clinical microbiology laboratory in integrated patient care and offers a comprehensive procedural manual that can be used by a wide variety of laboratories. This book describes various protocols for bioassay methods and molecular methods for bacterial strain typing.
