A Clinical Microbiologist Makes Serial Dilutions of Several Antimicrobials in Broth

question 46

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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