Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 45, Issue 1 , Pages 69-71, January 2003

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Campylobacter jejuni: a comparison between Etest and agar dilution method

  • Ozge Oncul

      Affiliations

    • Refik Saydam Hygiene Center, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Ankara, Turkey
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  • Pinar Zarakolu

      Affiliations

    • Hacettepe University, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Ankara, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +90-312-3111271; fax: +90-312-3104179.
    • ,
  • Ozgur Oncul

      Affiliations

    • Refik Saydam Hygiene Center, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Ankara, Turkey
    • ,
  • Deniz Gur

      Affiliations

    • Hacettepe University, Ihsan Dogramaci Children Hospital, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Ankara, Turkey

Abstract 

The susceptibility of Campylobacter jejuni strains (n = 50) against nine antimicrobials were determined in comparison with Etest (AB BIODISK, Solna, Sweden) and agar dilution method to further investigate the correlation between the two methods. All the strains were isolated from stool samples of patients with diarrhea in 1998 and found to be highly susceptible (>84%) to ampicillin, tetracycline, gentamicin, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin and erythromycin. The essential agreement between two methods was 66.6% (±1 log2 dilution) and 85.5% (±2 log2 dilution). The agreement of susceptibility categories was higher at 94.4%.

Keywords: Campylobacter jejuni, Susceptibility, Etest

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PII: S0732-8893(02)00496-0

doi:10.1016/S0732-8893(02)00496-0

Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 45, Issue 1 , Pages 69-71, January 2003

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