ability of clinical laboratories to detect antimicrobial agent-resistant enterococci. | to test the ability of clinical laboratories to detect antimicrobial resistance among enterococci, we sent four vancomycin-resistant enterococcal strains and one beta-lactamase-producing enterococcus to all 93 nongovernment, hospital-based clinical laboratories in new jersey; 76 (82%) participated in the study. each organism was tested by the laboratory's routine antimicrobial susceptibility testing method. the proportion of laboratories that correctly reported that an isolate was resistant to v ... | 1993 | 8349745 |