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This document includes updated tables for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute antimicrobial susceptibility testing standards M02, M07, and M11.
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This guideline includes protocols, quality control parameters, and interpretive criteria for culturing fungi and for detecting and identifying fungi in direct examinations.
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This document provides epidemiological cutoff values developed according to the criteria in the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guideline M57 and generated according to the reference broth dilution methods described in the CLSI standards M27 and M38.
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This document provides updated minimal inhibitory concentration, zone diameter, and quality control tables for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute antifungal susceptibility testing documents M27 and M44.
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