Antimicrobial Susceptibility Is Hard to Control Because Many of the Same

question 15

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 the following:

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

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