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Antimicrobial susceptibility test: from bacterial population analysis to therapy.
International journal of antimicrobial agents - 1 Jan 2002
Scavizzi Maurice R, Labia Roger, Petitjean Olivier J, Elbhar Alexis
Abstract excerpt
The statistical methods and parameters commonly used to define bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics in vitro such as MIC(50), linear regression or others, usually lead to a considerable loss of information: they do not take into account the heterogeneity of the bacterial population. In contrast, multivariate data analyses are more adapted to the description of biological systems. In this way, a population of a...
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