Symbiosis, Lab Experiments in Microbiology
Symbiosis, Lab Experiments in Microbiology
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ISBN: 9781256549567
Author: Johnson
Publisher: Pearson Custom Publishing
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The reason for using antimicrobial susceptibility test for identifying the unknown organism in the laboratory.

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In a clinical laboratory, it is important to isolate potential pathogen from the given sample fastly and accurately. Differentiating the pathogen as fungus or bacterium is also important. Moreover, to identify the class and genus of bacterium and fungus is also foremost important.

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In clinical microbiology labs, clinical susceptibility testing is done for the isolated organism. This is important because by this testing one can determine the resistant drugs in pathogens. Moreover, the result of other drugs on the given pathogen can also be suspected by this test. Moreover, such tests are performed after sterilizing the lab as the results must be highly accurate. By combing the results of this test and other clinical knowledge, it becomes easy for the doctors to prescribe the medicine to the patient to cure him from the certain disease.

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The reason for using antimicrobial susceptibility test for identifying the unknown organism in the laboratory is to suspect the antibiotics that are now resistant to pathogens and the other medicines that can be used to kill these pathogens.

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