Antibiotic sensitivity testing
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antibiotic-sensitivity-testing-213-2648519
title:
Antibiotic sensitivity testing
text:
Antibiotic sensitivity testing or antibiotic susceptibility testing is the measurement of the susceptibility of bacteria to antibiotics. It is used because bacteria may have resistance to some antibiotics. Sensitivity testing results can allow a clinician to change the choice of antibiotics from empiric therapy, which is when an antibiotic is selected based on clinical suspicion about the site of an infection and common causative bacteria, to directed therapy, in which the choice of antibiotic i
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Microbiology test used in medicine
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_sensitivity_testing
date created:
2005-10-19T12:13:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T09:50:23Z
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