biofilms known as microbial communities attaches to surfaces tightly making it difficult to remove and protecting the microorganism); amount of microorganisms (the more present will take longer to destroy such as clumped cells); chemical and physical issues (i.e. water hardness, humidity, temperature, and pH); and the microorganisms natural material it bears (organic/inorganic components such as plasma, pus, blood, or fecal) (CDC, …show more content…
Microorganisms that are resilient to antimicrobial are known as super bugs resulting in medications being unsuccessful allowing the infection to grow increasing the chances of it spreading (WHO, 2016). However, antimicrobial susceptibility assessments are important and significant in determining the bacterial isolates. It is used to detect a chance of a possible drug resistance found in pathogens insuring susceptibility to the medication for a certain infection will be successful (Oxford,