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Rev Cub Med Mil 2013; 42 (4)

Construed reading of the antibiogram

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Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 502-506
PDF size: 30.82 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Bacterial resistance to antimicrobials is a serious health problem at present, which compels us to change set concepts about the interpretation of the results from susceptibility tests, so it is essential to know and to apply a construed reading of the antibiogram. The purpose of this paper was to update and to disseminate existing knowledge about this topic, in addition to disclosing the benefits of put such pieces of knowledge into practice. Some of them are detection of new mechanisms of resistance, knowledge on the resistance epidemiology, better adequacy of antimicrobial treatments, and hence, better quality and management of results. The construed reading of an antibiogram must be a clinical requirement for the microbiologist at the lab and for the attending physician.


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