JAC Advance Access originally published online on September 16, 2004
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2004 54(5):962-964; doi:10.1093/jac/dkh429
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Susceptibility testing Pasteurella multocida by BSAC standardized methodology
The BSAC Standardized Method Development Centre, Microbiology, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK
Keywords: P. multocida , disc testing
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Sir,
Pasteurella multocida are associated with wound infections following dog or cat bites, scratches or licking of skin lesions and more serious invasive infections.1 Currently there are no recommendations for susceptibility testing this organism by BSAC methodology. In this study, we describe a disc susceptibility testing method based on the BSAC standardized method.2 A total of 83 clinical isolates
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