From Pure Culture to MIC Interpretation

Map the pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical stages of an automated bacterial identification and susceptibility workflow.

Assess culture purity and select appropriate isolated colonies for automated identification and AST.

Predict how inoculum density, medium, incubation, and timing errors can distort identification and susceptibility results.

Determine an MIC endpoint from a broth dilution growth pattern.

Interpret an MIC using current CLSI and EUCAST breakpoint tables, including the different meanings of their susceptibility categories.