An antibiogram is an overall profile of antimicrobial susceptibility testing results of a specific microorganisms to a battery of antimicrobial drugs.
It shows susceptibility of the microorganism investigated to particular antimicrobial drugs. Obtained results classified as: resistant, intermediate or sensitive to the action of a certain antibiotic.
White disks: the antimicrobial drugs. Unaffected area around the white disks: growth of the microorganism i.e. the drug does not kill the microbe. Affected area around the disks (radii of inhibited areas) gets bigger (no organism growth) with as much as the drug can affect the microbe's growth. In clinics, this affected area is measured (to be taken into consideration for treatment choosing by the clinican), along with the name of each drug with annotations such as "microbe not resistant to drug X - diameter of inhibition zone measured: MIC (Y mm)".
X: name of the drug/antibiotic
Y: number measured in mm
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