[...]... Dilution Susceptibility Testing 91 Ann Hanlon, Merwyn Taylor, and James D Dick Chapter 7 Susceptibility- Testing Protocols for Antibiograms and Preventive Surveillance: A Continuum of Data Collection, Analysis, and Presentation 105 John G Thomas and Nancy T Rector Chapter 8 Anaerobe Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing .139 Darcie E Roe-Carpenter Chapter 9 Antifungal Susceptibility Testing. .. antibiotic susceptibility discs, in Techniques for Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing, Balows, A., Ed., Charles C Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1974, 26 5 Barry, A.L., Garcia, F., and Thrupp, L.D An improved method for testing the antibiotic susceptibility of rapid growing pathogens, Amer J Clin Pathol., 53, 149–158, 1970 6 Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Performance standards for antimicrobial disk susceptibility. .. dilution antimicrobial susceptibility tests for bacteria that grow aerobically, approved standard M7-A7, 7th ed., CLSI, Wayne, PA, 2006 8 Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Methods for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of anaerobic bacteria, approved standard M11-A6, 7th ed., CLSI, Wayne, PA, 2007 9 Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Development of in vitro susceptibility testing. .. regulatory responsibility, but CLSI documents are often cited by agencies that do have such responsibilities 6 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Protocols Many laboratorians feel that they can test only those antimicrobial agents that have interpretive criteria and QC ranges defined in the CLSI tables Testing and reporting agents that do not have interpretive criteria are the responsibility of the chief... Standards Institute (CLSI) and Its Impact on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests 1 Arthur L Barry Chapter 2 Antimicrobial Classifications: Drugs for Bugs 7 Cassandra B Calderón and Beulah Perdue Sabundayo Chapter 3 Disk Diffusion Test and Gradient Methodologies .53 Audrey Wanger Chapter 4 Macro- and Microdilution Methods of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing 75 Sadaf Qaiyumi Chapter 5 Automated... Espinel-Ingroff and Emilia Cantón Chapter 10 Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of Filamentous Fungi .209 Ana Espinel-Ingroff and Emilia Cantón Chapter 11 Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacteria 243 Barbara A Brown-Elliott, Samuel Cohen, and Richard J Wallace, Jr Chapter 12 Methods for Determining Bactericidal Activity and Antimicrobial Interactions: Synergy Testing, Time-Kill Curves, and Population Analysis... Mechanism of Action 22 2.2.9.3 Antimicrobial Activity and Therapeutic Uses 22 2.2.9.4 Adverse Effect Profile .22 7 8 2.3 2.4 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Protocols 2.2.10 Aminoglycosides 22 2.2.10.1 Background 22 2.2.10.2 Mechanism of Action 23 2.2.10.3 Mechanisms of Resistance 23 2.2.10.4 Antimicrobial Activity and Therapeutic... the accepted state of the art 1.2 DISK DIFFUSION SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTS The CLSI began by looking for specific areas that would be most benefited by such consensus documents In the area of microbiology, the antimicrobial disk diffusion susceptibility test was a natural subject Just before that time, there was a major effort to standardize antimicrobial susceptibility tests on an international level, through... list each year 4 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Protocols V Sutter chaired a subcommittee that did the same thing for tests of anaerobic bacteria Initially, that subcommittee limited their document to agar dilution tests of nonfastidious anaerobes They defined a reference test that was to be used for evaluating other test procedures and anticipated modifications that would permit testing more fastidious... J.E., and Dolin, R., Eds., Churchill Livingstone, New York, 1995, pp 169–199 Chloramphenicol Penicillins Antibiotic(s) Antibiotic Class TABLE 2.1 Origin of Antibiotic Classes 10 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Protocols Antimicrobial Classifications 11 TABLE 2.2 Antibiotic Mechanisms of Action and Description of Activity Inhibition of Bacterial Cell Wall Synthesis Inhibition of Nucleic Acid Synthesis . Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Protocols Edited by Richard Schwalbe Lynn Steele-Moore Avery C. Goodwin Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Protocols CRC. Chapter 8 Anaerobe Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing 139 Darcie E. Roe-Carpenter Chapter 9 Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of Yeasts 173