Antimicrobial Susceptibility Is Hard to Control Because Many of the Same

question 4

Multiple Choice

Antimicrobial susceptibility is hard to control because many of the same species of organisms have a varied susceptibility to particular antibiotics.To reduce this variation, Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines recommend:

• A)using in-house organisms isolated from past patients.
• B)sharing strains between hospital laboratories.
• C)using specific strains from American Type Culture Collection (ATCC).
• D)obtaining test strains from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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