Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing by diffusion - gradient method (MIC strips)

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EQA medical biology

Description of the programme


These interlaboratory comparisons (AGLAE's programme ‘118A’) address any laboratory carrying out microbiological analyses (medical biology laboratories, hospital laboratories, testing laboratories...).

Characteristics of these EQA:

  • Receipt of a neutral solution contaminated by an identified strain, with a clinical scenario
  • Isolation, preparation of the inoculum and implementation of an Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) by application of MIC strips
  • On-line data entry

 


List of parameters


Détail des paramètres mis en oeuvre

For each antibiotic tested: reading of the MIC, report of raw and interpreted clinical categorisations.
Assessment provided for several technicians: report of referent results and up to 5 additional results (measurement of zone diameters).


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Annexes