Quality Control of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests Involves

question 60

Multiple Choice

Quality control of antimicrobial susceptibility tests involves:

• A)performing antimicrobial susceptibility tests on organisms using the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) charts to interpret the results.
• B)using organisms grown from patient cultures to test the reactivity of the antimicrobial drugs.
• C)testing standard reference strains that have defined antimicrobial susceptibility (or resistance) to the drugs tested.
• D)none of the above.

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