Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Aggregatibacter Actinomycetemcomitans can be performed using the EUCAST medium for anaerobic bacteria [PDF]
Journal of Oral MicrobiologyBackground The oral bacterium Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (Aa) is associated with infectious diseases treated with antibiotics, but specific recommendations for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of the species do not yet exist ...
Anne Birkeholm Jensen +3 more
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Comparison of ceftobiprole 5 μg disk diffusion, MIC test strip, and broth microdilution for susceptibility testing of Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates [PDF]
Journal of Clinical MicrobiologyCeftobiprole is a new-generation cephalosporin with activity against Staphylococcus aureus, but a comprehensive evaluation of MIC Test Strip (MTS) and disk diffusion (DD) methods using EUCAST and FDA breakpoint is lacking. Using broth microdilution (BMD)
Xinying Wang +4 more
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Does the adoption of EUCAST susceptibility breakpoints affect the selection of antimicrobials to treat acute community-acquired respiratory tract infections? [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2012 Background In several European Countries, by the end of 2012, CLSI guidelines will be replaced by EUCAST. We compared antimicrobial susceptibility results of a large number of respiratory pathogens using both EUCAST and previously adopted CLSI criteria ...
Marchese Anna +4 more
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Comparative assessment of the broth microdilution and VITEK 2 systems for antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida auris (Candidozyma auris) Isolates [PDF]
BMC MicrobiologyBackground Candidozyma auris is a multidrug resistant fungal pathogen classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a critical priority species.
Ozlem Aydemir +6 more
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Antifungal susceptibility and molecular characterization of clinical and environmental isolates of Schizophyllum commune [PDF]
Journal of Clinical MicrobiologySchizophyllum commune is a cosmopolitan, saprophytic basidiomycete known to cause respiratory tract infections following spore inhalation. Management of such infections remained poorly defined, and antifungal susceptibility testing may provide valuable ...
Grégoire Pasquier +16 more
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Journal of Contemporary Medicine, 2022 Objective: Staphylococci cause community-acquired and hospital-acquired infections, and Staphylococcus aureus is one of leading agents. In the last decades methicillin-resistant S.aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-intermediate S.aureus (VISA) and vancomycin ...
Muradiye Yarar +5 more
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Introduction to the Revised International Guidelines on Breakpoints for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing [PDF]
Annals of Clinical Microbiology, 2023 Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) M100 ‘Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST)’ and the European Committee on AST (EUCAST) ‘Breakpoint tables for interpretation of MICs and zone diameters’ guidelines for ...
Jae-Woo Chung
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Change of antibiotic susceptibility testing guidelines from CLSI to EUCAST: influence on cumulative hospital antibiograms. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 OBJECTIVE:We studied whether the change in antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) guidelines from CLSI to EUCAST influenced cumulative antibiograms in a tertiary care hospital in Switzerland. METHODS:Antibiotic susceptibilities of non-duplicate isolates
Aline Wolfensberger +5 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between inhibitory zones and minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) when testing cefiderocol against Acinetobacter baumannii complex using disk diffusion and the broth microdilution (BMD) method ...
Yanling Liu +6 more
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Aspergillus Section Terrei and Antifungals: From Broth to Agar-Based Susceptibility Testing Methods
Journal of Fungi, 2023 Providing timely antifungal treatment to patients suffering from life-threatening invasive fungal infections (IFIs) is essential. Due to the changing epidemiology and the emergence of antifungal resistance in Aspergillus, the most commonly responsible ...
Roya Vahedi-Shahandashti +3 more
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