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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2000) 45, 919-920
© 2000 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

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Towards a common susceptibility testing method?

Richard Wise* and Ian Phillips

BSAC Working Party on Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing, 11 The Wharf, 16 Bridge Street, Birmingham B1 2JS, UK

We agree with Gould's comments about the shortcomings of the Stokes' method and the need for the ‘comparability of data between different centres across the country so that resistance surveillance data can be reliably compared’. In fact we would go further and suggest that, since bacteria do not respect national borders, there should be worldwide comparability of data. Where we part company with Gould is in how we approach that goal.

In his paper, Gould outlines the relative merits of agar disc diffusion and breakpoint MIC methods and, in doing so, indicates many of the factors that affect . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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