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AS ISO 20776.1:2017
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Clinical laboratory testing and in vitro diagnostic test systems – Susceptibility testing of infectious agents and evaluation of performance of antimicrobial susceptibility test devices, Part 1: Reference method for testing the in vitro activity of antimicrobial agents against rapidly growing aerobic bacteria involved in infectious diseases
Adopts ISO 20776-1:2006, which describes one reference method, broth microdilution, for determination of minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs).
Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Terms and definitions
2.2 Antimicrobial agents — properties
2.8 Susceptibility testing method
3 Test procedures
3.1 General
3.2 Medium
3.3 Antimicrobial agents
3.3.1 General
3.3.2 Preparation of stock solutions
3.3.3 Preparation of working solutions
3.3.4 Preparation of microdilution trays
3.3.5 Storage of microdilution trays
3.4 Preparation of inoculum
3.4.1 General
3.4.2 Broth culture method
3.4.3 Colony suspension method
3.5 Inoculation of microdilution trays
3.6 Incubation of microdilution trays
3.7 Reading results
3.8 Special test situations where the MIC result might give unreliable results
4 Quality control
Annex A
A.1 General
A.2 Testing of non-fastidious organisms in Mueller-Hinton broth
A.2.1 General
A.2.2 Cation supplementation and content
A.2.3 Testing of Streptococcus species
A.2.4 Supplementary medium issues
A.2.4.1 General
A.2.4.2 Sulphonamides and trimethoprim
A.2.4.3 Tigecycline
A.2.4.4 Dalbavancin
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| Published | 02/02/2017 |
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| Pages | 19 |
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