FiRe works – the Finnish Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (FiRe)

A Nissinen; P Huovinen

doi:10.2807/esm.05.12.00020-en

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FiRe works – the Finnish Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (FiRe)
A Nissinen¹ , P Huovinen²
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Affiliations: ¹ Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Central Hospital of Middle Finland, Jyväskylä, Finland ² Antimicrobial Research Laboratory, National Public Health Institute, Turku, Finland

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Citation style for this article: Nissinen A, Huovinen P. FiRe works – the Finnish Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (FiRe). Euro Surveill. 2000;5(12):pii=20. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.05.12.00020-en

Abstract

The Finnish Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (FiRe), a network founded in 1991, has established a standard routine susceptibility testing method that yields reliable and comparable results for both diagnostic and epidemiological purposes. Results