Figure 5. The reproducibility and accuracy of the consensus MICs varies by drug.

Consensus MICs were arrived at by taking the median of 17 classifications after 14 days incubation. The essential and exact agreements are drawn as red and green bars, respectively. For the former the minimum thresholds required are 95% and 90% for the reproducibility and accuracy, respectively (International Standards Organization, 2007). See (Figure 5—figure supplement 1) for the other consensus methods.

Figure 5—figure supplement 1. The reproducibility and accuracy after 14 days incubation of the 13 antibiotics on the UKMYC5 plate.

A total of 17 classifications were used for each measurement and either the mean or mode was used to obtain a consensus reading of the (A) reproducibility and (B) accuracy. The essential agreement is drawn in red and the required thresholds are 95% and 90% for the reproducibility and accuracy, respectively (International Standards Organization, 2007). The exact agreement is drawn in green and no threshold is defined. The drug abbreviations are defined in (Figure 6—figure supplement 1). The dataset used was Expert +AMyGDA.