Sensibilité des bactéries aux antibiotiques: les CMI sont complémentaires de l'antibiogramme

This paper covers some notions that are essential to a critical analysis of each of the main avalaible methods, particularly the agar diffusion method and the determination of the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) : principles of agar diffusion, how break-points are established, epidemiological cut-off, comparison and correlation diameters-MICs, key-parameters of the reliability of each of these methods, importance for the clinical categorization of the frequency and the repartition of the different resistotypes in the bacterial populations.