Etest methods
Activities of Fluconazole and Voriconazole against 1,586 Recent Clinical Isolates of Candida Species Determined by Broth Microdilution, Disk Diffusion, and Etest Methods: Report from The ARTEMIS Global Antifungal Susceptibility Program, 2001
... and Etest meth- ods will provide useful quantitative and qualitative data and allow continued refinement of all methods with a robust col- lection of geographically diverse strains of Candida ...both ...
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Antifungal susceptibility of invasive yeast isolates in Italy: the GISIA3 study in critically ill patients
... had Etest MIC values that were higher than the proposed breakpoint ...complex Etest results with those of the reference method at the CCs which revealed a higher percentage CA between the reference and ...
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing for Polymyxins: Challenges, Issues, and Recommendations
... and Etest methods for colistin on MHA and ISA ...the Etest on MHA failed to detect resistant subpopulations of heteroresis- tant ...both methods, reflecting the higher sensitivity of ISA for ...
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Comparison of the Etest and the Sensititre Colorimetric Methods with the NCCLS Proposed Standard for Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of Aspergillus Species
... the Etest methods compared with those of the NCCLS method after 48 h of ...the Etest method (bars with light shading) by four different observers in triplicate for each strain of the five Aspergillus ...
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Comparison of Detection Methods for Heteroresistant Vancomycin Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus, with the Population Analysis Profile Method as the Reference Method
... reference methods for susceptibility testing, such as CLSI broth microdilution, agar dilution, and standard Etest methods, fail to detect hVISA, in part due to the small inoculum, the relatively poor ...
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Verification of Ceftazidime Avibactam and Ceftolozane Tazobactam Susceptibility Testing Methods against Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
... and Etest methods to standard broth microdilution (BMD) methods for testing ceftazidime-avibactam and ceftolozane-tazobactam against a diverse collection of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae ...
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Antimicrobial susceptibility of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli: comparison between Etest and a broth dilution method
... and Etest for MIC deter- mination for three antibiotics revealed excellent con- cordance between these ...the Etest and a broth microdilution method [3, ...the Etest method for the tested antibiotics ...
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Irreproducible and Uninterpretable Polymyxin B MICs for Enterobacter cloacae and Enterobacter aerogenes
... and Etest methods due to the poor diffusion of these compounds in agar ...Dilution methods for susceptibility testing are pre- ferred, but problems with antibiotic adsorption to labware and adaptive ...
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When Does 2 Plus 2 Equal 5? A Review of Antimicrobial Synergy Testing
... to Etest and TKAs when assessing antifungal synergy for Candida species ...and Etest methodologies for Escherichia coli, Enterobacter cloacae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus ...and Etest ...
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Evaluation of the Etest and Disk Diffusion Methods for Determining Susceptibilities of 235 Bloodstream Isolates of Candida glabrata to Fluconazole and Voriconazole
... testing methods for determination of the in vitro susceptibilities of ...the Etest and the disk diffusion methods to determine the susceptibilities of this relatively fas- tidious species of Candida ...
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Multicenter Comparative Evaluation of Six Commercial Systems and the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards M27 A Broth Microdilution Method for Fluconazole Susceptibility Testing of Candida Species
... test methods performed poorly (concordance range, ...and Etest methods ...commercial methods (based on concordance with the reference method) in testing ...
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Colistin and Polymyxin B Susceptibility Testing for Carbapenem Resistant and mcr Positive Enterobacteriaceae: Comparison of Sensititre, MicroScan, Vitek 2, and Etest with Broth Microdilution
... testing methods; the reference methods used vary and include agar dilution and broth microdilution with polysorbate-80 ...These methods are not recommended, and broth microdilution without ...
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<p>Disk-Diffusion Testing Is an Inappropriate Screening Tool for Cephalosporin-Resistant Gonorrhoea Strains in Clinical Practice in China</p>
... AST methods avail- able for N. gonorrhoeae. Methods recommended by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute 14 include agar dilution and E-test techniques that determine the minimum inhibitory ...
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Susceptibility Testing for the Polymyxins: Two Steps Back, Three Steps Forward?
... diffusion methods should be ...diffusion methods (both disk and gradient strips) have been found to have unacceptably high levels of false susceptibility (or very major errors [VMEs]) in multiple studies ...
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A multi-center blinded study on the efficiency of phenotypic screening methods to detect glycopeptide intermediately susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (GISA) and heterogeneous GISA (h-GISA)
... The methods chosen for this study are those that have been proposed by vari- ous groups as an initial screen to detect ...screening methods chosen for this study (agar screening plates and Etest mac- ...
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First Comprehensive Evaluation of the M I C Evaluator Device Compared to Etest and CLSI Reference Dilution Methods for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Clinical Strains of Anaerobes and Other Fastidious Bacterial Species
... tetracycline (88%). As shown in Table 3, the essential agreement for M.I.C. Evaluator compared to Etest for all agents tested, except imipenem and tetracycline, was lower. When the essential agree- ment limit was ...
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Evaluation of Etest for Susceptibility Testing of Multidrug Resistant Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... of Etest for the detection of drug-resistant ...of Etest relative to the proportion method was investigated using clin- ical isolates of ...of Etest to detect MDR TB, our comparison to the “gold ...
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Comparison of Polymyxin B, Tigecycline, Cefepime, and Meropenem MICs for KPC Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae by Broth Microdilution, Vitek 2, and Etest
... testing methods (broth microdi- lution [BMD], Vitek 2, and Etest) to determine the rates of MIC agreement for polymyxin B, tigecycline, cefepime, and meropenem among KPC-producing ...
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Accuracy of Commercial and Reference Susceptibility Testing Methods for Detecting Vancomycin Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus
... g/ml, Etest, the MicroScan system, and the Phoenix system tended to give higher vanco- mycin MIC results than the broth microdilution reference method; agar dilution, the Sensititre system, and the Vitek 2 system ...
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Evaluation of a New Etest Vancomycin Teicoplanin Strip for Detection of Glycopeptide Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (GISA), in Particular, Heterogeneous GISA
... test methods that can reliably detect these phenotypes in their clinical ...the Etest GRD strip with VA and TP, that performs as well as the E-M and the reference PAP-AUC assay but with the simplicity of a ...
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