Comparative Evaluation of Broth Microdilution with Polystyrene and Glass-Coated Plates, Agar Dilution, E-Test, Vitek, and Disk Diffusion for Susceptibility Testing of Colistin and Polymyxin B on Carbapenem-Resistant Clinical Isolates of <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i>

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Lipika Singhal · Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

Megha Sharma · Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

Salony Verma · Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

Ramanpreet Kaur · Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

Basil Britto Xavier · University of Antwerp

Surbhi Malhotra Kumar · University of Antwerp

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Different susceptibility testing methods for polymyxins show great variation in their results and BMD using glass-coated plates can be considered the best candidate for gold standard.

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Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing

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Published in: Microbial Drug Resistance

Volume 24, Issue 8, pp. 1082-1088

DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2017.0251

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Comparative Evaluation of Broth Microdilution with Polystyrene and Glass-Coated Plates, Agar Dilution, E-Test, Vitek, and Disk Diffusion for Susceptibility Testing of Colistin and Polymyxin B on Carbapenem-Resistant Clinical Isolates of <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i>

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