What action should be taken for any isolate found to be nonsusceptible (NS) to a particular antimicrobial agent?
a. No additional action is needed, as these results can occur with any organism.
b. Organism's identification and susceptibil-ity test results should be confirmed.
c. The patient report should indicate the iso-late is resistant to the antimicrobial.
d. Patient's physician should be contacted and advised that effectiveness of this an-timicrobial against the isolate cannot be judged by in vitro testing.
B
Used for isolates for which only susceptible interpretive criterion has been established because the absence or rare occurrences of resistant strains; antimicrobials agents with MICs above or zone diameters are below the susceptible breakpoint should be reported as NS. Note: Confirma-tion of the organism's identification and susceptibility test results should be performed.
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