Disk Diffusion Antimicrobial Tests
"Disk Diffusion Antimicrobial Tests" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A method where a culturing surface inoculated with microbe is exposed to small disks containing known amounts of a chemical agent resulting in a zone of inhibition (usually in millimeters) of growth of the microbe corresponding to the susceptibility of the strain to the agent.
| Descriptor ID |
D052978
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.225.875.595.399 E05.200.875.595.399
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| Concept/Terms |
Epsilometer Test- Epsilometer Test
- Epsilometer Tests
- Test, Epsilometer
- Tests, Epsilometer
- Etest
- Etests
Kirby-Bauer Disk-Diffusion Method- Kirby-Bauer Disk-Diffusion Method
- Disk-Diffusion Method, Kirby-Bauer
- Kirby Bauer Disk Diffusion Method
- Bauer-Kirby Disk-Diffusion Method
- Bauer Kirby Disk Diffusion Method
- Disk-Diffusion Method, Bauer-Kirby
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Disk Diffusion Antimicrobial Tests" by people in Profiles.
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Alberti MO, Hindler JA, Humphries RM. Performance of Etest for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Abiotrophia defectiva and Granulicatella Species. J Clin Microbiol. 2016 08; 54(8):2194-6.