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Journal of Clinical Microbiology logoLink to Journal of Clinical Microbiology
. 1985 Nov;22(5):793–798. doi: 10.1128/jcm.22.5.793-798.1985

Evaluation of the BIOGRAM antimicrobial susceptibility test system.

R F D'Amato, L Hochstein, J R Vernaleo, D J Cleri, A A Wallman, M S Gradus, C Thornsberry
PMCID: PMC268529  PMID: 4056005

Abstract

BIOGRAM is an antimicrobial susceptibility test system for the determination of MICs from the standard disk diffusion test zone diameters. The system was challenged with 511 recent clinical isolates of members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, nonfermentative gram-negative bacteria, staphylococci, and enterococci. Results were compared with those obtained with the broth microdilution method. Appropriate control organisms were included with each test series. A total of 10,085 organism-drug combinations were evaluated. BIOGRAM demonstrated an overall correlation of 95.9% with the reference broth microdilution method.

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