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Antibiogram & Interpretative Standards for Antibiotic (Antibacterial) Disks used for Susceptibility Studies

Antimicrobial Agents /Microorganisms  Disk Code  Disk Potency (µg)   Resistant   Intermediate   Susceptible Amikacin Enterobacteriaceae, P. aeruginosa Acinetobacter spp, Staphylococcus spp     AK 30     ≤14 15-16 ≥17 Amoxycillin-Clavulanic acid EnterobacteriaceaeStaphylococcus spp     Haemophilus spp AMC 20/10 ≤13 ≤19 ≤19   14-17 — —   ≥18 ≥20 ≥20 Ampicillin Enterobacteriaceae and Vibrio cholerae Staphylococcus spp    […]

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Overview of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) / Antibiogram

When a pathogenic microorganism is isolated from the specimen of a patient, the clinical microbiology laboratory will often carry out in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility testing (antibiogram) on the isolated pathogen in order to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility profile of the microbe to a range of antibiotics/drugs using antibiotic susceptibility disks, so that treatment can be

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