Susceptibility breakpoints
Impact of inappropriate antifungal therapy according to current susceptibility breakpoints on Candida bloodstream infection mortality, a retrospective analysis
... Study design. A retrospective laboratory-based survey was performed; patients admitted to two referral tertiary centers in Mexico City from June 2008 to July 2014 with a positive blood culture for Candida spp., 30-day ...
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Does the adoption of EUCAST susceptibility breakpoints affect the selection of antimicrobials to treat acute community acquired respiratory tract infections?
... of susceptibility calculated using EUCAST and CLSI breakpoints were compared, as breakpoints for macrolides and related antibiotics have been set by EUCAST to categorize wild type ...
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Normalized Resistance Interpretation as a Tool for Establishing Epidemiological MIC Susceptibility Breakpoints
... interpretive breakpoints in antimicrobial susceptibility testing were challenged by ...interpretive breakpoints in relation to the susceptible peak in zone diam- eter histograms made results from ...
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Public Health Efforts Can Impact Adoption of Current Susceptibility Breakpoints, but Closer Attention from Regulatory Bodies Is Needed
... carbapenem breakpoints by clinical laboratories has serious clinical and public health ...carbapenem breakpoints to AST results can direct treating physicians to use inappropriate antimi- crobial therapy, ...
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Nationwide German Multicenter Study on Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistance in Staphylococcal Bloodstream Isolates and Comparative In Vitro Activities of Quinupristin Dalfopristin
... h. Susceptibility to oxacillin was also determined by performing the screening test with agar plates that contained 6 mg of oxacillin per ...and susceptibility testing were identical in all participating ...
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Clinical Outcomes of Enterobacteriaceae Infections Stratified by Carbapenem MICs
... the susceptibility of an organism to a particular ...and susceptibility breakpoints can equip clini- cians with enough data to employ effective antimicrobial ...Currently, susceptibility ...
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Evaluation of Updated Interpretative Criteria for Categorizing Klebsiella pneumoniae with Reduced Carbapenem Susceptibility
... indicating susceptibility; if the MHT is positive, carbapenem MICs are to be reported without an interpretation and with the following ...for susceptibility and ⱖ 1 g/ml for ...the susceptibility ...
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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
... of susceptibility to cefazolin, comparable to those observed with third generation cephalosporins, as pre- sented by our data, suggest that empirical use of cefazo- lin may be ...
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Antimicrobial susceptibility of strains of Enterobacteriaceae isolated from bloodstream infections using current CLSI and EUCAST breakpoints
... EUCAST breakpoints were able to detect 8% of the iso- lates producing carbapenemase (MIC ≥ 4 ...nam susceptibility and resistance breakpoints respec- tively are ≤ 4 mg/l and ≥ 16 mg/l for CLSI and ≤ ...
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Susceptibility of Extended Spectrum β Lactamase Producing Enterobacteriaceae According to the New CLSI Breakpoints
... the susceptibility breakpoints of some cephalosporins and aztreonam for Enterobacteriaceae and eliminated the need to perform screening for extended-spectrum  -lactamases (ESBLs) and confirmatory ...
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Don't Get Wound Up: Revised Fluoroquinolone Breakpoints for Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
... revised susceptibility breakpoints by clinical laboratories that use commercial AST ...revised breakpoints on the AST systems being ...revised breakpoints. Furthermore, FDA clearance of ...
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Fluoroquinolone Susceptibility Testing of Salmonella enterica: Detection of Acquired Resistance and Selection of Zone Diameter Breakpoints for Levofloxacin and Ofloxacin
... ameter breakpoints published by the CLSI in 2012, all isolates with topoisomerase mutations were identified as resistant or interme- diate by broth microdilution and disk diffusion ...diameter breakpoints ...
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Breakpoints for Predicting Pseudomonas aeruginosa Susceptibility to Inhaled Tobramycin in Cystic Fibrosis Patients: Use of High Range Etest Strips
... It is well known that the Etest, a stable antimicrobial gradi- ent method for MIC determination, ensures accurate results and is easy to perform (3). Etest and disk diffusion methods have proven to be useful not only for ...
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Molecular characterization of the breakpoints of an inversion fixed between Drosophila melanogaster and D. subobscura.
... Comparison of sequences of these inversion breakpoints has allowed us to delin- eate accurately the location of the breakpoints, to char- acterize features of their sequence[r] ...
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VetCAST method for determination of the pharmacokineticpharmacodynamic cut-off values of a long-acting formulation of florfenicol to support clinical breakpoints for florfenicol Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing in cattle
... is one of the three MICs considered by VetCAST, a sub-committee of the European Committee on Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST), to establish a Clinical Breakpoint for interpreting Antimicrobial Susceptibility ...
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Impact of 21st Century Cures Act on Breakpoints and Commercial Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Systems: Progress and Pitfalls
... establish breakpoints for antimi- crobial ...Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Committee for the United States (USCAST) (founded in ...antibacterial breakpoints (until very recently, as discussed ...
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Identification of Potential Recombination Breakpoints in Human Parechoviruses
... recombination breakpoints could not be detected in this ...recombination breakpoints in parechovirus by analysis of complete parechovirus sequences, includ- ing a newly isolated ...recombination ...
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Establishment and Use of Epidemiological Cutoff Values for Molds and Yeasts by Use of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute M57 Standard
... An ECV is not a predictor of clinical success. In order to make use of an ECV, a clinician must know whether a given antifungal agent is generally successful when used against a particular fungus. If a fungus has ...
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THE ECCENTRICITY OF VERMILION DEFICIENCIES IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
... Their right and left breakpoints are not symmetrically distributed around the U locus; rather, right breakpoints are found no farther than 5 or 6 bands to the right of th[r] ...
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Inability of cephalothin testing to predict cefprozil susceptibility
... By using cephalothin breakpoints -18 mm, susceptible; s14 mm, resistant to predict cefprozil susceptibility, higher error rates were observed with the cephalothin disk 0.14% very major e[r] ...
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