Susceptibility testing is used to determine which antimicrobials will inhibit the growth of the bacteria or fungi causing a specific infection. The results from this test will help a health practitioner determine which drugs are likely to be most effective in treating a person's infection.Like bacteria, viruses can develop resistance to the drugs used to treat them, but that type of testing is performed differently, so this article is limited to the discussion of bacterial and fungal susceptibility testing.Some types of bacteria and fungi are known to be susceptible to certain antimicrobials, so routine testing may not always be necessary. For example, it is well known that most streptococci, including the type that causes strep throat, can be treated with penicillin, so these types of infections may be treated without susceptibility testing. However, if the usual drug of choice fails to treat the infection, then susceptibility testing may be necessary to determine a more effective drug.Other types of infections may require testing because the bacteria or fungi isolated from an infection site are known to have unpredictable susceptibility to the drugs usually used to treat them. Some examples include staphylococci ("staph") and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Sometimes there may be more than one type of pathogen isolated from an infected site. Susceptibility testing may be used to determine which antibiotic or antibiotic combinations will be most effective in treating all of the different types of bacteria causing the infection. This may be true, for example, with wound infections.
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