The Interpretive Standards say that a zone of inhibition of

Last updated: 7/29/2022

The Interpretive Standards say that a zone of inhibition of 20 mm qualifies as a sensitive zone for a newly discovered antibiotic. A zone of inhibition of 17 to 19 mm qualifies as intermediate. If a test bacteria exhibits a 25 mm zone of inhibition when properly tested against this newly discovered antibiotic on Mueller Hinton agar, the rest organism is expected to grow in the presence of the antibiotic die in the presence of the antibiotic unable to predict results from the data given none of these