Minimum inhibitory concentration distributions for Mycobacterium avium complex—towards evidence-based susceptibility breakpoints

Background: Patients with clinical infections caused by the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) are treated for at least 1 year following sputum conversion with a regimen that suffers from a suboptimal cure rate. The correlation between clinical outcome and drug susceptibility testing breakpoints othe...

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Main Authors: Thomas Schön, Erja Chryssanthou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-02-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971217300024