<p>The aim of this project was to compare the use of the Swedish Reference Group of Antibiotics and the Clinical Laboratory standard institute disc diffusions method using a variety of antibiotics on Klebsiella species and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. After the disc diffusions methods a Vitek system and Etest where preformed on those isolates with a different or abnormal result.</p><p>Klebsiella spp. and P. aeruginosa was colleted in St James’s hospital over a period of four months. These two isolates were chosen because of their resistance pattern to many commonly used antibiotics and the threat of upcoming resistance to other antibiotics.</p><p>The SRGA method is know to have lower breakpoints to catch low degree of resistance bacteria, while the CLSI often is blamed for not having species specific MIC breakpoints.</p><p>The results in this study showed that the SRGA-m often caught more resistant and</p><p>intermediate isolates then the CLSI-m.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:uu-7207 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Neyvaldt, Julianna |
| Publisher | Uppsala University, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala : Universitetsbiblioteket |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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