ArticleMicrobiology (Reading, England)2026
The impact of inoculation methods on bacterial aggregation and antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
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Abstract
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) has been a gold standard for guiding physician treatment practices for accurate antibiotic prescription, of which the broth microdilution method is recommended and commonly used. Different inoculation methods and preparative steps of bacterial suspension for AST are applied in various settings, which are based on the assumption that planktonic broth cultures contain homogeneous single cells. However, this has been challenged by the common observation of non-surface-attached aggregates in shaking cultures. Whether different inoculation methods producing different aggregation patterns contribute to inconsistent AST results has not been systematically investigated. To address this, we evaluated how routinely used inoculation methods for
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