Evaluation of the E Test for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Isolates from Patients with Long-term Bladder Catheterization

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Journal J Clin Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1998 Mar 21

PMID 9508323

Citations 5

Authors

G Di Bonaventura

E Ricci

N Della Loggia

G Catamo

R Piccolomini

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Abstract

The E test was evaluated in comparison with reference agar methods (National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards) for the susceptibility testing of 248 Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from bladder-catheterized patients against nine antibiotics. The E-test MICs correlated well with those determined by the agar dilution and disk diffusion reference methods (88 and 92.5% within 1 log2 dilution step, respectively), confirming that the E test is a reliable method for the determination of MICs of antibiotics for catheterization-associated P. aeruginosa isolates.

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