The AST Subcommittee provides useful information to laboratories, enabling them to advise clinicians in the selection of appropriate antimicrobial therapy.
Volunteers for the AST Subcommittee come from microbiology laboratories, government agencies, and pharmaceutical and diagnostic microbiology industries. Together, they focus on the following key elements:
As a result, the interests of the professions, government, and industry remain balanced and aimed at a single common interest—quality medical testing.
* An Ad hoc Working Group is under one of the 6 Standing WGs. Ad hoc WGs usually have an assignment that is limited in scope and is disbanded upon completion of the assignment.
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