Definition: A method where a culturing surface inoculated with microbe is exposed to small disks containing known amounts of a chemical agent resulting in a zone of inhibition (usually in millimeters) of growth of the microbe corresponding to the susceptibility of the strain to the agent.
Other names Kirby Bauer Disk Diffusion Method; Disk-Diffusion Method, Kirby-Bauer; Disk-Diffusion Method, Bauer-Kirby; Bauer Kirby Disk Diffusion Method; Kirby-Bauer Disk-Diffusion Method; Bauer-Kirby Disk-Diffusion Method