Stop waiting for tomorrow: Disk diffusion performed on early growth is an accurate method for antimicrobial susceptibility testing with reduced turnaround time
Webber, Daniel M, Wallace, Meghan A, Burnham, Carey-Ann D
2022Digital Commons@Becker (Washington University School of Medicine)39 citations
Abstract
Disk diffusion is a slow but reliable standard method for measuring the antimicrobial susceptibility of microorganisms. Our objective was to improve the turnaround time for this method by reducing the time that cultures are incubated before setting up disk diffusion testing. For initial method development, clinical isolates (
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Turnaround timeAgar diffusion testDiffusionIncubationBacterial growthConfidence intervalAntimicrobialAgarClinical microbiologyBiologyIncubation periodMicrobiologyBacteriaMedicineInternal medicineComputer sciencePhysicsGeneticsAntibacterial activityBiochemistryOperating systemThermodynamicsBacterial Identification and Susceptibility TestingReproductive tract infections researchClostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research