A Test to Determine the Effectiveness of an Antimicrobial Agent

question 11

Multiple Choice

A test to determine the effectiveness of an antimicrobial agent that uses growth of a test microorganism in patients' blood serum is the:

• A)disk dilution method
• B)dilution method
• C)disk diffusion method
• D)serum killing power method

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Definitions:

Temperature

A physical quantity that expresses hot and cold, measured typically in degrees Celsius, Fahrenheit, or Kelvin.

Percentile

A statistical measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group falls, often used to compare scores across a population.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set, representing the most common or popular observation.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how much the values in the set differ from the mean.