Background. Current national strategy addresses antibiotic stewardship in order to decrease
selection of antibiotic resistance and aims to advance the development and use of rapid …

Background: Antibiotic resistance poses a significant threat to patients suffering from
infectious diseases. Early readings of antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) results could be of …

Background. Bloodstream infections can cause life-threatening complications. Early targeted
antimicrobial therapy is crucial to decreasing mortality and improving outcomes. Direct …

Disk diffusion is a slow but reliable standard method for measuring the antimicrobial
susceptibility of microorganisms. Our objective was to improve the turnaround time for this …

Disc diffusion testing by Kirby-Bauer technique is the most used method for determining
antimicrobial susceptibility in microbiological laboratories. The current guidelines by The …

Materials and Methods: An experimental study was carried out after obtaining waiver of
consent, in a tertiary care centre. A total of 37 patients were included in the study after …

Accurate and early susceptibility results could reduce overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics
for empirical treatment of bacteremia. Direct disk diffusion testing (dDD) using …

Background We investigated the feasibility of rapid disc diffusion antibiotic susceptibility
testing (rAST) with reading of inhibition zones after 6 and/or 8 h of incubation for …

Objectives In clinical microbiology, some instruments are able to automatically read
inhibition zone diameters for antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) performed by the disc …

The disc diffusion test is used for antimicrobial susceptibility testing worldwide. In this study,
the performance of both Bio-Rad® antibiotic discs (as compared with Oxoid® discs) and the …