Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) Data

Example data set of a MIC experiment, taken from Turnidge et al. (2006)

Format

Data frame with two columns:

conc

vector of antibiotic concentrations

freq

frequency of detected MIC concentrations

Source

https://clsi.org/education/microbiology/ecoffinder/

References

Turnidge, J., Kahlmeter, G., Kronvall, G. (2006) Statistical characterization of bacterial wild-type MIC value distributions and the determination of epidemiological cut-off values. Clin Microbial Infect 12: 418-425 doi: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01377.x

Examples

data(micdata)
plot(freq ~ log2(conc), data=micdata, type="h")

## replace NA values with zero
micdata$freq[is.na(micdata$freq)] <- 0
plot(cumsum(freq) ~ log2(conc), data=micdata, type="l")