Criteria for establishing a bacterial isolate as clinically significant include
A) cultivation of the organism from a clinical specimen.
B) detection and/or the abundance of the organism on direct specimen Gram stain in the presence of white blood cells.
C) predominance of the organism in specimen cultures.
D) its antimicrobial susceptibility results.
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Q1: The interpretive criteria for categories of susceptible,
Q2: Enterococcal resistance to ampicillin predicts resistance to
A)vancomycin.
B)aminoglycosides.
C)cephalosporins.
D)amikacin.
Q4: Enterococcal high-level gentamicin resistance predicts resistance to
A)vancomycin.
B)aminoglycosides.
C)cephalosporins.
D)amikacin.
Q5: The decision to perform susceptibility testing depends
Q6: In the microdilution broth dilution method, the
Q7: The primary goal of antimicrobial susceptibility testing
Q8: The serum bactericidal test (SBT) involves
A)subculturing the
Q9: Staphylococcal resistance to oxacillin is used to
Q10: Chromogenic cephalosporins are used to test for
A)the
Q11: In the disk diffusion method of antimicrobial
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