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Normalized resistance interpretation, the NRI method
Author(s) -
Kronvall Göran,
Smith Peter
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
apmis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0903-4641
DOI - 10.1111/apm.12624
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , diffusion , field (mathematics) , medical physics , test (biology) , computer science , mathematics , medicine , physics , biology , pure mathematics , thermodynamics , programming language , paleontology
The normalized resistance interpretation (NRI) method was developed in response to a call for a method to calibrate disc diffusion test results making inter‐laboratory comparisons possible. The main use of NRI so far has been in individual laboratories, in medical and veterinary medicine and in the field of marine microbiology. The applications of NRI for disc diffusion tests are reviewed and, in addition, a detailed description of the calculation procedure is presented. NRI provides a fully objective method for ECOFF calculations of disc diffusion antimicrobial susceptibility test results.