The day the agar stopped working: what emerging antimicrobial resistance (AMR) means for microbiology laboratory testing-potential effects on infectious disease reporting

J E Moore; B C Millar

doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2020.04.035

The day the agar stopped working: what emerging antimicrobial resistance (AMR) means for microbiology laboratory testing-potential effects on infectious disease reporting

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Aug;26(8):973-975. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.04.035. Epub 2020 May 1.

Authors

J E Moore¹, B C Millar²

Affiliations

¹ Northern Ireland Public Health Laboratory, Department of Bacteriology, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK; School of Biomedical Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK; School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, The Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University, Belfast Northern Ireland, UK. Electronic address: jemoore@niphl.dnet.co.uk.
² Northern Ireland Public Health Laboratory, Department of Bacteriology, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK; School of Biomedical Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK; School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, The Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University, Belfast Northern Ireland, UK.

PMID: 32360776
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.04.035

No abstract available

Keywords: AMR; Antibiotic resistance; Antimicrobial resistance; CF; Cystic fibrosis; Food microbiology; Isolation; Methods; Public health microbiology; Water microbiology.

MeSH terms

Agar
Anti-Infective Agents / pharmacology
Clinical Laboratory Services
Clinical Laboratory Techniques / methods*
Communicable Diseases / diagnosis
Communicable Diseases / epidemiology
Communicable Diseases / microbiology
Culture Media
Disease Notification*
Drug Resistance, Microbial*
Humans

Substances

Anti-Infective Agents
Culture Media
Agar