CLSI M100-S20

Includes Erratum of 12 April 2010 to M100-S20.

The supplemental information presented in this document is intended for use with the antimicrobial susceptibility testing procedures published in the following Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)--approved standards: M02-A10--Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Tests; Approved Standard--Tenth Edition; and M07-A8--Methods for Dilution Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria That Grow Aerobically; Approved Standard--Eighth Edition. The standards contain information about both disk (M02) and dilution (M07) test procedures for aerobic bacteria.

Clinicians depend heavily on information from the clinical microbiology laboratory for treatment of their seriously ill patients. The clinical importance of antimicrobial susceptibility test results requires that these tests be performed under optimal conditions and that laboratories have the capability to provide results for the newest antimicrobial agents.

The tabular information presented here represents the most current information for drug selection, interpretation, and quality control using the procedures standardized in M02 and M07. Users should replace the tables published earlier with these new tables. (Changes in the tables since the most current edition appear in boldface type.)