Includes bibliographical references and index.

An overview of the clinical and laboratory standards institute (CLSI) and its impact on antimicrobial susceptibility tests / Arthur L. Barry -- Antimicrobial classifications : drugs for bugs / Cassandra B. Calder�on and Beulah Perdue Sabundayo -- Disk diffusion test and gradient methodologies / Audrey Wanger -- Macro- and microdilution methods of antimicrobial susceptibility testing / Sadaf Qaiyumi -- Automated systems : an overview / Sheryl Stuckey -- Agar dilution susceptibility testing / Ann Hanlon, Merwyn Taylor, and James Dick -- Susceptibility-testing protocols for antibiograms and preventive surveillance : a continum of data collection, analysis, and presentation / John Thomas and Nancy T. Rector --

Anaerobe antimicrobial susceptibility testing / Darcie E. Roe-Carpenter -- Antifungal susceptibility testing of yeasts / Ana Espinel-Ingroff and Emilia Cant�on -- Antifungal susceptibility testing of filamentous fungi / Ana Espinel-Ingroff and Emilia Cant�on -- Susceptibility testing of mycobacteria / Barbara A. Brown-Elliott, Pamela Lindholm-Levy, and Richard J. Wallace Jr. -- Methods for determing bactericidal activity and antimicrobial interactions : synergy testing, time-kill curves, and population analysis / Punam Verma --

Serum bactericidal testing / Harriette Nadler and Michael Dowzicky -- Bioassay methods for antimicrobial and antifungal agents / Donald H. Pitkin and Estrella Martin-Mazuelos -- Molecular methods for bacterial strain typing / Sophie Michaud and Donna Berg -- Pharmacy and microbiology : interactive synergy / Beulah Perdue Sabundayo and Cassandra B. Calder�on -- Interactions between clinicians and the microbiology laboratory / John H. Powers -- Clinical microbiology in the development of new antimicrobial agents / C. Douglas Webb and Barbara G. Painter.

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