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Evaluation of the EUCAST disc diffusion susceptibility testing method for Haemophilus influenzae based on the resistance mechanism to β-lactam antibiotics.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2013
García-Cobos S, Arroyo M, Pérez-Vázquez M, Aracil B, Oteo J, Campos J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: EUCAST developed an antibiotic susceptibility testing method for Haemophilus influenzae. We assessed the EUCAST testing method and EUCAST clinical breakpoints and newly proposed epidemiological cut-off values against H. influenzae clinical isolates with known molecular mechanisms of resistance to β-lactam antibiotics. METHODS: In total, 89 clinical isolates were used: 30 were β-lactamase negative with...
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