The day the agar stopped working: what emerging antimicrobial resistance (AMR) means for microbiology laboratory

J E Moore1, B C Millar1

  • 1Northern 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.

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