CLSI and EUCAST 2014 Breakpoints for MIC testing
First Comprehensive Evaluation of the M I C Evaluator Device Compared to Etest and CLSI Broth Microdilution for MIC Testing of Aerobic Gram Positive and Gram Negative Bacterial Species
... The categorical agreements for both M.I.C. Evaluator strips and for Etest were comparable. The most notable issues occurred with beta-lactam antimicrobials, erythromycin, and with the fluo- roquinolones. Since all of ...
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Evaluation of Oxacillin and Cefoxitin Disk Diffusion and MIC Breakpoints Established by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute for Detection of mecA Mediated Oxacillin Resistance in Staphylococcus schleiferi
... BMD testing that could not be examined in this ...BMD testing methods using the current S. pseudintermedius breakpoints accurately identify mecA-mediated oxacillin resistance in ...the CLSI ...
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Tigecycline and intravenous fosfomycin zone breakpoints equivalent to the EUCAST MIC criteria for Enterobacteriaceae
... zone breakpoints that best correlate to tigecycline and i.v. fosfomycin MIC breakpoints defined by the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility ...
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Antimicrobial susceptibility of strains of Enterobacteriaceae isolated from bloodstream infections using current CLSI and EUCAST breakpoints
... the breakpoints used, the aim of the study was to compare the antimi- crobial susceptibility results to different classes of antibiotics of 512 strains of Enterobacteria- ceae (200 ESβL positive) isolated from ...
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Performance of Vitek 2 for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Enterobacteriaceae with Vitek 2 (2009 FDA) and 2014 CLSI Breakpoints
... the CLSI M100-S24 breakpoints. Of the 8 VMEs observed with the CLSI M100-S24 breakpoints, only 2 were in ESBL-positive isolates, and 6 were for either ESBL-negative iso- lates or occurred in ...
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Comparison of European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) and Etest Methods with the CLSI Broth Microdilution Method for Echinocandin Susceptibility Testing of Candida Species
... the CLSI, EUCAST, and Etest methods for the testing of echinocandins against Candida ...the CLSI, EUCAST, and Etest methods may be used effectively in resistance surveillance and ...
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Development of Doxycycline MIC and Disk Diffusion Interpretive Breakpoints and Revision of Tetracycline Breakpoints for Streptococcus pneumoniae
... susceptibility testing interpretive breakpoints for doxycycline with Streptococcus pneu- moniae and to reassess breakpoints for tetracycline using the requirements defined in Clinical and Laboratory ...
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International and Multicenter Comparison of EUCAST and CLSI M27 A2 Broth Microdilution Methods for Testing Susceptibilities of Candida spp to Fluconazole, Itraconazole, Posaconazole, and Voriconazole
... reference MIC results as well as categorical differences of MIC endpoints between the methods were ...The CLSI QC isolates, Candida krusei ATCC 6258 and Candida parapsilosis ATCC 22019, also were ...
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Normalized Resistance Interpretation as a Tool for Establishing Epidemiological MIC Susceptibility Breakpoints
... The deviations from the ECOFF values might be due to a number of influencing factors. One such possible factor was the size of the material in the distributions. Fifteen S. aureus distributions had lower than 10,000 ...
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Susceptibility of Extended Spectrum β Lactamase Producing Enterobacteriaceae According to the New CLSI Breakpoints
... tion of different  -lactamase genes to express a  -lactamase- mediated resistance phenotype (6, 17). We also observed that K. pneumoniae was more resistant to ceftazidime, cefepime, and aztreonam than E. coli. This may ...
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Evaluation of Ciprofloxacin and Levofloxacin Disk Diffusion and Etest Using the 2019 Enterobacteriaceae CLSI Breakpoints
... the breakpoints for these agents became apparent to ...2018 breakpoints for the Enterobacteriaceae were applied, and limited clinical outcome data demon- strated that these original breakpoints may ...
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Correlation of MIC with Outcome for Candida Species Tested against Caspofungin, Anidulafungin, and Micafungin: Analysis and Proposal for Interpretive MIC Breakpoints
... The CLSI Antifungal Subcommittee followed the M23-A2 “blueprint” to develop interpretive MIC breakpoints for anidulafungin, caspofungin, and micafungin against Candida ...An MIC predictive of ...
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Does the adoption of EUCAST susceptibility breakpoints affect the selection of antimicrobials to treat acute community acquired respiratory tract infections?
... Using EUCAST break- points, the percentages of macrolides and clindamycin susceptible isolates were very similar to those obtained following CLSI criteria and no relevant discrepancies were ...
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Correlation of MIC with Outcome for Candida Species Tested against Voriconazole: Analysis and Proposal for Interpretive Breakpoints
... RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Voriconazole MIC distribution profile for Candida species. The cumulative percentage of isolates for each species of Can- dida inhibited at each concentration throughout the BMD dilution ...
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Correlation of MIC with Outcome for Candida Species Tested against Voriconazole: Analysis and Proposal for Interpretive Breakpoints
... RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Voriconazole MIC distribution profile for Candida species. The cumulative percentage of isolates for each species of Can- dida inhibited at each concentration throughout the BMD dilution ...
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Multicenter Evaluation of the New Vitek 2 Yeast Susceptibility Test Using New CLSI Clinical Breakpoints for Fluconazole
... Analysis of results. The MICs obtained with the Vitek 2 AF03 IUO yeast susceptibility test were compared with those obtained with the ref- erence BMD panels read at 24 h (Candida species) and 72 h (C. neofor- mans). High ...
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Performance of Vitek 2 for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia with Vitek 2 (2009 FDA) and CLSI M100S 26th Edition Breakpoints
... updated CLSI/FDA breakpoints for Acineto- bacter ...fewer testing options for this organism than are currently available on the system cleared with historical ...
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Comparative Evaluation of a New Commercial Colorimetric Microdilution Assay (SensiQuattro Candida EU) with MIC Test Strip and EUCAST Broth Microdilution Methods for Susceptibility Testing of Invasive Candida Isolates
... SQ MIC results: the positive control remained red, but with repetition the control turned yellow or orange so that the test could be as- sessed as ...SQ MIC was not related to an exact valuation ...
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Comparison of Dimethyl Sulfoxide and Water as Solvents for Echinocandin Susceptibility Testing by the EUCAST Methodology
... From a chemical point of view, echinocandins are more soluble in DMSO, which has a lower dielectric constant than water; this allows them to remain more highly dispersed and accessible to their cellular target (3). This ...
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Comparative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiles of Uropathogenic Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamase Producing Strains of Klebsiella pneumonia and Escherichia coli by the CLSI and EUCAST Methodologies
... conservative breakpoints for antibiotics because of the inconsistencies obtained with the kappa analysis results regarding the ESBL- producing uropathogenic strains of ...
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