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Antimicrobial Synergy Testing by the Inkjet Printer-assisted Automated Checkerboard Array and the Manual Time-kill Method
Published on: April 18, 2019
Evaluation of antibiotic combinations against multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii using the E-test
F A Haddad1, K Van Horn, C Carbonaro
1Center for Infectious Diseases, T. J. Samson Community Hospital, 1214 North Race Street, Glasgow, KY 42141, USA. fhaddad@tjsamson.org
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