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Unit 2

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What is the principle of the E Test?   a quantitative method of antibiotic sensitivity testing that applies both dilution of antibiotic and diffusion of antibiotic into the medium.  
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E Test are usually performed on which type of organisms?   fastidious, slow-growing or nutritionally deficient that would not routinely grow in the MircoScan panel and/or generate MIC data  
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How do you read/interpret an E Test? What are the units   read where the ellipse intersects the scale where the concentration of the antibiotic inhibits growth. ug/ml  
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What is the principle of the Agar Dilution Test?   antibacterial concentration and organisms to be tested are brought together on an agar based medium. Each agar equals 1 concentration.  
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What is the Serum Bacteriocidal Test?   a direct method for measuring the antibacterial potency of a patient's serum against his own isolate of bacteria  
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What is another name for the Serum Bacteriocidal Test?   Schlicter test  
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What two serum samples are required for the Schlicter Test? What dilutions are prepared?   trough specimen and a peak specimen. Two fold serial dilutions of each specimen  
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What standardizes all E Tests? What agar is used to perform this test?   0.5 McFarland Standard. Mueller Hinton  
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What principle do the E Test, Agar Dilution, and Schlicter Test all test?   Antimicrobial susceptibility  
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How many dilutions are plated in the Agar Dilution test?   six dilutions of one drug requiring 6 plates  
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