The disc diffusion method has a long history and because of its inherent flexibility in drug selection and its low cost the concept is used in many clinical microbiology laboratories all over the world in the performance of routine antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
The results from susceptibility testing are of great importance to the hospital physicians and the general practitioner when treating an infectious process since the knowledge of susceptibility to different antimicrobial agents of the causative organism facilitates the choice of the safest and most effective treatment.
Rosco Neo-Sensitabs have been available on the market for more than 35 years and have proven their worth with regards to accurate homogeneous results and long shelf life at room temperature.
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