Laboratories and regulator misled over antibiotic susceptibility test discs: patients may have received inappropriate antibiotic treatment as a result of quality problems withone company's test discs, Deborah Cohen and Glenn Swift report
Cohen, D.; Swift, G.
Bmj 346: F837
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 0959-8138 PMID: 23403982 Document Number: 664014
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