A clinical microbiologist makes serial dilutions of several antimicrobics in broth, and then incubates each drug dilution series with a standard amount of a patient's isolated pathogen. What is this microbiologist setting up?

A. minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)
B. therapeutic index (TI)
C. antibiogram
D. Kirby-Bauer test
E. E-test


Answer: A

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