Susceptibility Testing Guide
Based on the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Supplement (JAC [2001] 48, Suppl. S1).
Individual chapters are available below:
Chapter 1
History and development of antimicrobial susceptibility testing methodology
July 2001
Chapter 2
Determination of minimum inhibitory concentrations
March 2006
Chapter 3
Establishing MIC breakpoints and the interpretation of in vitro susceptibility tests
January 2005
Chapter 4
The development of the BSAC standardized method of disc diffusion testing
July 2001
Chapter 5
BSAC standardized disc susceptibility testing method
April 2007
Chapter 6
Detection of beta-lactamase-mediated resistance
August 2005
Chapter 7
Detection of methicillin/oxacillian resistance in staphylococci
July 2001
Chapter 8
Quality assurance of antimicrobial susceptibility testing by disc diffusion
July 2001
Chapter 9
Recommendations for susceptibility tests on fastidious organisms and those requiring special handling
July 2001
Chapter 10
Instrumentation in antimicrobial susceptibility testing
July 2001
Chapter 11
Interpretative reading: recognizing the unusual and inferring resistance mechanisms from resistance phenotypes
March 2004
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