Antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) can be an essential step in antibiotic therapy and guides the use of drugs considered to be effective in vitro against a given isolate. Conflicting results obtained from susceptibility tests can lead to confusion about the selection of antibiotics for treatment, confound the work of standards bodies such as the Clinical & Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing, and negatively affect patient care.
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