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Resistance rates of non-<em>albicans Candida</em> infections in Taiwan after the revision of 2012 Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute breakpoints
... and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) revised its breakpoints for drugs and species because of the increase in non-albicans Candida infections and their drug ...
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Comparison of Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing guidelines for the interpretation of antibiotic susceptibility at a University teaching hospital in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross-sectional study
... and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) whose interpretive cut offs for antibiotics is based on MIC distributions, pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic (PK-PD) properties and the mechanisms of resistance ...
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Effects of Following National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards and Deutsche Industrie Norm Medizinische Mikrobiologie Guidelines, Country of Isolate Origin, and Site of Infection on Susceptibility of Escherichia coli to Amoxicillin Clavulanate (Augmentin)
... Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) guidelines for the determination of MICs are quite similar, generally differing only in the choice of test ...
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Bacillus anthracis: Comparison of Results Obtained by Using the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards Broth Microdilution Reference and Etest Agar Gradient Diffusion Methods
... We determined the patterns of antimicrobial susceptibility of 65 isolates of Bacillus anthracis (50 historical and 15 recent U.S. clinical isolates) to nine antimicrobial agents using the National Committee for Clinical ...
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Effect of the 2014 Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute urine-specific breakpoints on cefazolin susceptibility rates at a community teaching hospital
... and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) publishes guidelines for conducting and interpreting in vitro antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) ...microbiology laboratory and is often used to aid ...
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Comparison of the Vitek 2 Antifungal Susceptibility System with the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) Broth Microdilution Reference Methods and with the Sensititre YeastOne and Etest Techniques for In Vitro Detection of Antifungal Resistance in Yeast Isolates
... It can be concluded that the Vitek 2 system is a reliable technique to determine antifungal susceptibility testing of yeast species, and that it can be clinically useful for determin- ing the susceptibility of both ...
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Clinical Outcomes of Enterobacteriaceae Infections Stratified by Carbapenem MICs
... and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) lowered the MIC breakpoints for meropenem and imipenem from 4 mg/ liter to 1 mg/liter for Enterobacteriaceae in ...
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Reverse zoonotic transmission of community-associated MRSA ST1-IV to a dairy cow
... Streptococcus dysgalactiae from one animal. Staphylococcus aureus and S. uberis were identified from a sample collected from a 4-year-old Friesian cow that had calved 2 months previously without a history of clinical ...
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Methods for Improved Detection of Oxacillin Resistance in Coagulase Negative Staphylococci: Results of a Multicenter Study
... Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) oxacillin breakpoints for broth microdilution and disk diffusion testing of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) by using a PCR assay for mecA as the reference ...
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Multicenter Comparison of the VITEK 2 Antifungal Susceptibility Test with the CLSI Broth Microdilution Reference Method for Testing Amphotericin B, Flucytosine, and Voriconazole against Candida spp
... and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI; for- merly the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Stan- dards) BMD method for the testing of amphotericin B, flucy- tosine, fluconazole, and ...
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Susceptibility of Extended Spectrum β Lactamase Producing Enterobacteriaceae According to the New CLSI Breakpoints
... and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) lowered the susceptibility breakpoints of some cephalosporins and aztreonam for Enterobacteriaceae and eliminated the need to perform screening for ...
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Proof of Concept for MBT ASTRA, a Rapid Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI TOF MS) Based Method To Detect Caspofungin Resistance in Candida albicans and Candida glabrata
... ABSTRACT The incidence of candidemia caused by Candida albicans and Candida glabrata is constantly increasing and is accompanied by the rising use of the few available antifungals. The widespread use of echinocandins and ...
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CLSI Methods Development and Standardization Working Group Best Practices for Evaluation of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests
... methodology. Laboratory directors have re- ported to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) that one reason for delaying the implementation of cASTs for new antibiotics is concern ...
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Novel Fluorescent Broth Microdilution Method for Fluconazole Susceptibility Testing of Candida albicans
... Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) broth microdilution method with a novel fluorescent carboxyfluorescein diacetate (CFDA)-modified microdi- lution method for the susceptibility testing of fluconazole ...
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Development of a rapid, reliable and quantitative method – “SPOTi” for testing antifungal efficacy
... Clinical Laboratory Standards, 1997; National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, 2002), as is also seen through this work (Tables 2 and ...
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Comparative evaluation of macrodilution and alamar colorimetric microdilution broth methods for antifungal susceptibility testing of yeast isolates
... A comparative evaluation of the macrodilution method and the Alamar colorimetric method for the sus- ceptibility testing of amphotericin B, fluconazole, and flucytosine was conducted with 134 pathogenic yeasts. The ...
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Critical Assessment of Issues Applicable to Development of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Breakpoints
... The laboratory may use CLSI (NCCLS) criteria, but the use of other validated criteria is ...Clinical Laboratory Standards of Practice document published in 2008 indicates in Tag ...“The ...
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MICs of Selected Antibiotics for Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus thuringiensis, and Bacillus mycoides from a Range of Clinical and Environmental Sources as Determined by the Etest
... interpretive standards for gram- positive and/or aerobic bacteria, all cultures were susceptible to amoxicillin-clavulanic acid and gentamicin and 99% (one with intermediate sensitivity) of cultures were ...
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Clindamycin Resistance among Staphylococcus aureus Clinical Isolates in Alexandria
... and laboratory standards institute (CLSI) guidelines [17], disk diffusion method was used for detection of antimicrobial susceptibility to 11 antimicrobial agents, namely penicillin (P), ...
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Methodologies for the evaluation of the antibacterial activity of propolis
... The accuracy represents the systematic error, which is the difference between the expected value and the value obtained. Therefore, for the accuracy test of the disk diffusion method, antimicrobial agent disks which are ...
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