A Clinical Microbiologist Makes Serial Dilutions of Several Antimicrobics in Broth

question 77

Multiple Choice

A clinical microbiologist makes serial dilutions of several antimicrobics 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)Kirby-Bauer test
• B)antibiogram
• C)E-test
• D)minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)
• E)therapeutic index (TI)

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