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Global Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

Maximize Your Lab’s Effectiveness With the Latest Editions of CLSI M02, M07 & M100

Make sure your lab has the latest guidance in antimicrobial susceptibility testing, breakpoints, and quality control! Use of these newly updated standards and breakpoints is critical to ensuring accurate testing results and better patient outcomes. Purchase all three documents together to receive discounted package pricing! See below for more information.

CLSI M100 - 2025 Preorder

Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing, 35th Edition

CLSI M100-Ed35 includes updated tables for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute antimicrobial susceptibility testing standards CLSI M02| Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Tests, 14th Edition (2024), CLSI M07| Methods for Dilution Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria That Grow Aerobically, 12th Edition (2024), and CLSI M11 | Methods for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Anaerobic Bacteria, 9th Edition (2018).

CLSI M02

Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Tests, 14th Edition

CLSI M02 covers the current recommended methods for disk susceptibility testing and criteria for quality control testing.

CLSI M07

Methods for Dilution Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria That Grow Aerobically, 12th Edition

CLSI M07 covers reference methods for determining minimal inhibitory concentrations of aerobic bacteria by broth macrodilution, broth microdilution, and agar dilution.

Register Now for the AST Updates Webinar on 26 February 2025!

Identify the major changes found in the updated edition of CLSI’s M100 and learn to design a strategy for implementing new laboratory practices.

CLSI 2025 M100 Update Webinar

Implement CLSI M100 With Confidence

Date: Wednesday, 26 February  at 1:00-2:30 ET

Moderator:
Janet Hindler, MCLS, MT(ASCP), F(AAM)
Speakers: 
April Bobenchik, PhD, D(ABMM)
Romney Humphries, PhD D(ABMM)

Join CLSI on Wednesday, 26 February at 1:00 ET for a webinar on the latest in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) with the release of CLSI M100 Ed35. Receive the latest guidance for implementing new breakpoints and standards into your laboratory practices, including discussion of the major changes in this edition, including:

  • A significant addition of a new appendix
  • Expanded QC guidance
  • Removal of breakpoint
  • A new categorization of disk diffusion methods described in CLSI M02. 

 

 

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CLSI Breakpoint Implementation Toolkit

Breakpoint Implementation Toolkit

Together CLSI, Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), American Society for Microbiology (ASM), College of American Pathologists (CAP), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have jointly developed this Breakpoint Implementation Toolkit (BIT) to assist clinical laboratories in updating minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) breakpoints.

CLSI BIT Webinar

Get Current! Using the 2023 Breakpoint Implementation Toolkit to Update and Document AST Breakpoints

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI), Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), American Society for Microbiology (ASM), College of American Pathologists (CAP), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have jointly developed this Breakpoint Implementation Toolkit (BIT) to assist clinical laboratories in updating minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) breakpoints.

 

 

Other Ways to Access CLSI M100 Ed35

eCLIPSE

Access CLSI's full library of standards—including CLSI M100—with eCLIPSE Ultimate Access, an enhanced, premium platform with advanced features to help you access standards quickly and easily. Included in some membership levels or purchased separately.

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Get full online access to M100, M02, M07, and M11 with added functionality and fast, easy data searching in an electronic format. Plus, you’ll have the added benefit of quick access to related materials via an AST Resource Center.

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MicroFree

With this read-only web version of M100, you can now quickly reference the most trusted AST breakpoints from anywhere with an Internet connection. Available online as a convenient companion to our M100 document.

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2025 AST Packages | Bundle these latest editions and receive them at a discounted rate.

With important updates for all three documents, CLSI is offering discount package pricing for those that choose to bundle and save.

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Consider becoming a CLSI member to save up to 70% on documents and educational products and gain access to the most up-to-date standards via eCLIPSE, our full online library.

 

 

The Go-To Source for AST Methods and Interpretive Criteria

CLSI has a longstanding reputation for its diligent development of microbiology and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) standards and guidelines on test methods and QC procedures. CLSI annually creates and revises AST breakpoints to meet global public health challenges related to antimicrobial resistance. CLSI is proud to support one health and fighting antimicrobial resistance.