Description

Mueller Hinton Agar with 5% Sheep Blood is recommended for antimicrobial disc diffusion susceptibility testing of Streptococcus pneumoniae with selected agents; i.e., chloramphenicol, erythromycin, ofloxacin, tetracycline and vancomycin, in addition to oxacillin screening for susceptibility to penicillin, as standardized by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI).