TY - JOUR
AU - Turck, M.
AB - TH E AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY Reprinted from TECHNICAL BULLETIN OI- THE Copyright © I960 by The Williams & Wilkins Co. REGISTRY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGISTS Vol. 45, No. 4 Printed in U.S.A. Vol. 36, No. 3, 1966 TECHNICAL SECTION ANTIBIOTI C SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING BY A STANDARDIZED SINGLE DIS K METHOD A . W . BAUER , M.D. , W . M . M . KIRBY , M.D. , J . C . SHERRIS , M.D. , AX U M . TURCK , M.D . Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98105 Most clinical microbiologic laboratories in necessary, with water or saline solution to a this country now use the paper disk method density visually equivalent to tha t of a stand­ for determining susceptibility of bacteria to ard prepared by adding 0.5 ml. of 1 per cent antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents. A BaCl to 99.5 ml. of 1 per cent H SO„ (0.36 2 2 number of modifications of the test are em­ N) . An alternative procedure is to dilute ployed. When this type of test was first de­ broth cultures overnight to the density of the opacity standard (10- 
TI - Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing by a Standardized Single Disk Method
JO - American Journal of Clinical Pathology
DO - 10.1093/ajcp/45.4_ts.493
DA - 1966-04-01
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SP - 493
EP - 496
VL - 45
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