Pseudomonas aeruginosa

taxonomy (J Gen Microbiol 1982, 128:2945-2954), control strain (Methodology for the Serum Bactericidal test: Approved Guideline. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M21-A; Methods for Determining Bactericidal Activity of Antimicrobial Agents; Approved Guideline. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M26-A), evaluation of Mueller-Hinton agar (Protocols for Evaluating Dehydrated Mueller-Hinton Agar; Approved Standard. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M6-A2; US General Services Administration Mueller Hinton Medium, dehydrated. Washington, DC:US General Services Administration;Commercial Item Description A-A-50904A, 1986), media testing (Quality Control for Commercially Prepared Microbiological Culture Media; Approved Standard - 3rd Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M22-A3;Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs--Guidelines on preparation and production of culture media-- Part 2: Practical guidelines on performance testing of culture media. Geneva (Switzerland):International Organization for Standardization/ANSI;ISO ISO 11133-2:2003; Medical microbiology-- Culture media -- Part 3: Dip slides for microbiological urine analysis. Berlin, Germany:Deutsches Institut fur Normung;DIN DIN 58942-3: 2003; Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs --- Guidelines on preparation and production of culture media --- Part 2: Practical guidelines on performance testing of culture media - Annex B: Recommended test microorganisms for commonly used culture media. London, UK:British Standards Institution, British Standard DD CEN ISO/TS 11133:2003), quality control strain (API 20 NE. bioMerieux; BD Enterotube II QC Set. BD Becton Dickinson; Enterotube; BD Oxi/Ferm II QC Set. BD Becton Dickinson; Oxi/Ferm; BD Phoenix Gram Negative NMIC and NMIC/ID QC Set. BD Becton Dickinson; Phoenix;MicroScan Dried Gram Negative Panel QC Set. Dade/Siemens; Sensititre Automated Gram Positive ID. Trek Diagnostic Systems; Sensititre MIC Susceptibility. Trek Diagnostic Systems, susceptibility disc testing (Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Tests; Approved Standard - 9th Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M2-A9; Methods for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Testing of Bacteria Isolated from Aquatic Animals. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M42-A; Methods for Broth Dilution Susceptibility Testing of Bacteria Isolated from Aquatic Animals. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M49-A), susceptibility testing ( Methods for Dilution Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria that Grow Aerobically; Approved Standard - 7th Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M7-A8; Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk and Dilution Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria Isolated from Animals; Approved Standard - 2nd Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M31-A3; Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; Sixteenth Informational Supplement. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M100-S20, 2007; Evaluation of Lots of Dehydrated Mueller-Hinton Broth for Antimicrobial Susceptibility testing; Proposed Guideline. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M32-P; Medical microbiology; methods for the determination of susceptibility of pathogens (except mycobacteria) to antimicrobial agents: agar diffusion test. Berlin, Germany: Deutsches Institut fur Normung, DIN 58940-3: 1989; Medical microbiology -- Methods for the determination of susceptibility of pathogens (except mycobacteria) to antimicrobial agents-- Part 7: Determination of the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) with the aid of microdilution. Berlin, Germany: Deutsches Institut fur Normung, DIN DIN 58940-7: 1994; Medical microbiology: methods for the determination of susceptibility of pathogens (except mycobacteria) to antimicrobial agents; determination of MICs by agar dilution method. Berlin, Germany: Deutsches Institut fur Normung, DIN DIN 58940-6: 1989; Medical microbiology -- Susceptibility testing of microbial pathogens to antimicrobial agents -- Part 81: Microdilution; Special requirements for testing of non-fastidious bacteria. Berlin, Germany: Deutsches Institut fur Normung; DIN 58940-81: 2002; Clinical laboratory testing and in vitro diagnostic test systems --- Susceptibility testing of infectious agents and evaluation of performance of antimicrobial susceptibility test devices --- Part 1: Reference method for testing the in vitro activity of antimicrobial agents against rapidly growing aerobic bacteria involved in infectious diseases. London, UK:British Standards Institution;British Standard BS EN ISO 20776-1:2006),