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?

Question

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? 
Multiple Choice
Kirby-Bauer test
antibiogram
E-test
minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)
therapeutic index (TI)

GPT 3.5 · Answer

minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)