JAC Advance Access originally published online on September 20, 2002
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2002) 50, 757
© 2002 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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A survey of susceptibility testing of anaerobes in the United Kingdom
Department of Medical Microbiology, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK
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Keywords: anaerobes, testing
Sir,
The susceptibility testing of anaerobes requires special expertise, particularly for those isolates that require prolonged incubation for growth. The recent Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Supplement giving British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) guidelines for susceptibility testing1 offers recommendations for susceptibility testing of anaerobes, but these are