In this article standard antibiotic susceptibility test methods and key terms in reporting results recommended by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) were introduced into nine parts: (1) Key points in routine antibiotic susceptibility test. (2) Staphylococcus spp. (3) Enterococcus spp. (4) Streptococcus pneumoniae. (5) Streptococcus spp. other than Streptococcus pneumoniae. (6) Infrequently isolated strains or fastidious bacteria. (7) Enterobacteriaceae. (8) Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other non-Enterobacteriaceae. (9)Haemophilus influenzae and H. parainfluenzae. The author also introduced part of updated contents from CLSI M100-S19,2009.