Author: Richard Schwalbe

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2007-05-22

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1420014498

The clinical microbiology laboratory is often a sentinel for the detection of drug resistant strains of microorganisms. Standardized protocols require continual scrutiny to detect emerging phenotypic resistance patterns. The timely notification of clinicians with susceptibility results can initiate the alteration of antimicrobial chemotherapy and