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Pharm D- Clinical Pharmacy Program Third Level Pharmaceutical Microbiology& Antimicrobials (PM 502)

Culture media, microbial inoculum size and incubation conditions for
antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods as recommended by CLSI.

2-Choosing the Appropriate Antibiotic

Drugs for routine susceptibility tests:

➢ Set 1: the drugs that are available in most hospitals and for which routine
testing should be carried out for every strain
➢ Set 2: the drugs that are tested only:

- at the special request of the physician
- or when the causative organism is resistant to the first-choice drugs
- or when other reasons (allergy to a drug, or its unavailability)

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