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- brisphointe friotaíochta cliniciúil Reference Faomhadh an téarma seo mar chuid de Thionscadal Lex
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- clinical resistance breakpoint
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- Definition "clinical breakpoint [ IATE:3517476 ] used to characterise a bacterium as clinically resistant (R)" Reference "COM-Terminology Coordination, based on:EUCAST definitions of clinical breakpoints and clinical resistance. EUCAST (European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing), http://www.srga.org/Eucastwt/eucastdefinitions.htm [14.11.2013]"
- Comment This is done after testing the bacterium against a drug concentration ranging for x mg/L (low) to y mg/L (high) and if the test result shows that at a concentration y mg/L there is a high likelihood of therapeutic failure.