Based on the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Supplement (JAC [2001] 48, Suppl. S1).
Individual chapters are available below:-
Chapter One
History and development of antimicrobial susceptibility testing methodology
July 2001
Chapter Two
Determination of minimum inhibitory concentrations
March 2006 (chapter under review)
Chapter Three
Establishing MIC breakpoints and the interpretation of in vitro susceptibility tests
January 2005
Chapter Four
The development of the BSAC standardized method of disc diffusion testing
July 2001
Chapter Five
BSAC standardized disc susceptibility testing method
Version 6 April 2007
Chapter Six
Detection of beta-lactamase-mediated resistance
August 2005
Chapter Seven
Detection of methicillin/oxacillin resistance in staphylococci
July 2001
Chapter Eight
Quality assurance of antimicrobial susceptibility testing by disc diffusion
July 2001
Chapter Nine
Recommendations for susceptibility tests on fastidious organisms and those requiring special handling
July 2001
Chapter Ten
Instrumentation in antimicrobial susceptiblity testing
July 2001
Chapter Eleven
Interpretative reading:recognizing the unusual and inferring resistance mechanisms from resistance phenotypes
March 2004
