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Gosden, P. E. et al. Comparison of the modified Stokes' method of susceptibility testing with results obtained using MIC methods and British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy breakpoints.

For each method of susceptibility testing, time from initial incubation to test result (time-to-result) was recorded.

However, because errors are observed mainly for S. maltophilia and much less often for Acinetobacter spp., it appears unlikely that the use of a different method of susceptibility testing would materially influence our findings.

This is in agreement with previous studies using Etest as the method of susceptibility determination, which displayed differing success rates (23-45%) with vancomycin treatment of patients infected with high MIC and low MIC isolates [ 1- 5, 9].

Two methods of susceptibility testing showed that PKS1409 was susceptible to vancomycin.

Therefore any comparison with studies that use other methods of susceptibility testing is not acceptable [ 31].

However, despite early molecular testing, identification of MDR or XDR TB still depended on conventional methods of susceptibility testing.

Complete and reliable data on the in vitro sensitivity of these pathogens can be obtained, however, when standardized and specially adapted methods of susceptibility testing are employed [ 19].

Tenover et al. (11 ) demonstrated different methods of susceptibility testing (e.g., MicroScan Rapid panels and disk diffusion) have been shown to be unreliable in detecting S. aureus strains with reduced susceptibility of vancomycin; none of the VA laboratories reporting SARV used those methods considered to be unreliable (Table 1).

A number of possible factors may explain these findings: a lack of infectivity of the patients at the time of admission; the effective use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection control; low sensitivity of the antibody detection method; lack of susceptibility of HCWs, or a lack of transmissibility of this particular H5N1 strain.

Crystallographic texture and grain boundary distribution are introduced as a new method of reducing susceptibility to crack formation and propagation.