Comparison of Etest and agar dilution method for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Flavobacterium isolates
- 1 April 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 35 (4) , 1021-3
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.35.4.1021-1023.1997
Abstract
The Etest was evaluated as a possible alternative to the standard agar dilution method for susceptibility testing of nine antimicrobial agents against Flavobacterium species. In studies of 100 clinical isolates, the agreement between the MICs (+/-1 log2 dilution) obtained by the two methods was acceptable for cefotaxime, ceftazidime, amikacin, minocycline, ofloxacin, and ciprofloxacin (> 90%). Conversely, the agreement between the results obtained for piperacillin was limited (84%). The overall agreement was 92.5%.Keywords
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