Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing on Bacterial Cultures

The lab analyst performs the technical steps to evaluate a culture isolate’s susceptibility, or sensitivity, to multiple antimicrobial agents, commonly called antibiotics, by observing growth of the isolate on various concentrations of each antibiotic using agar dilution or microdilution methods to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration. Choose a location to see hospital-reported price summaries. This page does not show national, sample, or aggregate pricing.