A Clinical Microbiologist Makes Serial Dilutions of Several Antimicrobials in Broth

question 85

Multiple Choice

A clinical microbiologist makes serial dilutions of several antimicrobials in broth, and then incubates each drug dilution series with a standard amount of a patient's isolated pathogen. What is this microbiologist setting up?

• A) A Kirby-Bauer technique
• B) A antibiogram
• C) An E-test
• D) A minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) test
• E) A therapeutic index (TI)

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