Antibiotic sensitivity performed according to spec source and organism submitted
status
ACTIVE
Fully-Specified Name
component
Antibiotic XXX
property
Susc = Susceptibility
time
Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements.
system
Isolate
scale
OrdQn = Quantitative or Ordinal: Test can be reported as either Ord or Qn, e.g., an antimicrobial susceptibility that can be reported as resistant, intermediate, susceptible or as the mm diameter of the inhibition zone. We discourage the use of OrdQn in other circumstances.
method
MIC = Minimum Inhibitory Concentration: Antibiotic susceptibilities
Additional Names
short name
ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITIES; AST; ID; Infectious Disease; InfectiousDisease; Islt; Isol; Minimum inhibitory concentration; Other Antibiotic; Point in time; Random; Sus; Suscept; Susceptibilities; Susceptibility; Susceptibilty