Open AccessInterpretive Criteria for Cefamandole and Cephalothin Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Tests
Author(s) -
A L Barry,
Fritz D. Schoenknecht,
Smith Shadomy,
J. C. Sherris,
Clyde Thornsberry,
John A. Washington,
Robert B. Kammer
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.07
H-Index - 259
eISSN - 1070-6283
pISSN - 0066-4804
DOI - 10.1128/aac.15.1.140
Subject(s) - cefamandole , diffusion , cephalosporin , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , antibiotics , thermodynamics , physics
A multi-center study of 1,838 clinical isolates established the accuracy of diffusion susceptibility tests with 30-μg cephalothin disks and 30-μg cefamandole disks. The same interpretive zone standards can be applied to tests with either disk but the two drugs cannot be tested interchangeably.
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