title: Unreliability of direct antibiotic susceptibility testing on wound exudates.
abstract: Direct susceptibility testing was performed on 110 specimens of wound exudates. Growth was inadequate in 76 of these specimens. Of the remaining 34 specimens, only 5 produced results corresponding to those obtained by testing individual bacterial isolates by the Kirby-Bauer technique. This study confirms that direct susceptibility testing of wound exudates may provide misleading and clinically unreliable information on more than 95% of specimens.
mesh_terms: D005122:Exudates and Transudates / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000382:microbiology*