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This guideline discusses the necessary and recommended data for selecting appropriate breakpoints and quality control ranges for antimicrobial agents.
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About the Microbiology Standards Subcommittees
- About CLSI's Subcommittees on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST)
- About CLSI’s Subcommittee on Antifungal Susceptibility Tests
- About CLSI’s Subcommittee on Veterinary Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (VAST)
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- Upcoming Microbiology Webinars
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- On-Demand CLSI-SIDP ACCP Annual Webinar Note: This will open ProCE's website.
- Other
- Statistician Summary for Alternative 5X3 QC Testing
- CLSI and AST
- FDA Makes Up-to-Date Susceptibility Test Interpretive Criteria (Breakpoint) Resources Available Online Note: This will open the FDA website.
- M23 Disk Content Submission Inquiry
- Joint ASM-CLSI-CAP Individualized Quality Control Plan (IQCP) Note: This will open the ASM website.
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With these read-only web versions of M100 and M60, you can now quickly reference the most trusted AST and antifungal breakpoints from anywhere with an Internet connection. Available online as a convenient companion to our M100 document and M60 document.
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Our rationale documents provide the scientific reasons behind the AST subcommittee’s decisions, along with documentation of the standardized data and methods used to determine breakpoints.
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