A Fundamental Change in Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Would Better Prevent Therapeutic Failure: From Individual to Population-Based Analysis

Ivan Brukner; Matthew Oughton

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.01820

A Fundamental Change in Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Would Better Prevent Therapeutic Failure: From Individual to Population-Based Analysis

Front Microbiol. 2020 Aug 18:11:1820. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01820. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Ivan Brukner^{1

2

3}, Matthew Oughton^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Diagnostic Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada.
² Molecular and Regenerative Medicine, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada.
³ Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: antibiotic resisitance; antibiotic susceptibility; bacterial growth; guide to therapy; immunocompromidsed patients; laboratory results; microbiology; qPCR.