The European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing - EUCAST

EUCAST is a scientific committee formed in 1997 and is jointly organized by ESCMID, ECDC and European national breakpoint committees. EUCAST develops antimicrobial susceptibility testing methodology, interpretative criteria and guidance documents to aid clinical decision making when treating infectious diseases. 

Further details about EUCAST and its subcommittees can be found in the sections at the top of the webpage.

EUCAST News

The EUCAST Steering Committee are recruiting a new Scientific Secretary. Details of the role can be found here. The deadline for applications is 18 September. Please send any CV and supporting letters…

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A new screening method for the detection of terbinafine and itraconazole resistance in Trichophyton using antifungal-containing agar plates has now been published here…

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A revised version of the EUCAST guidance document on “When there are no breakpoints” has been published. The latest reformatted version contains further advice to help laboratories interpret…

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The EUCAST responses to comments received on the public consultation for proposed breakpoints for new anaerobic bacterial species are published. Many useful comments were received which have…

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An updated version (16.1) of the clinical breakpoint tables has been published, including breakpoints for additional anaerobic bacterial species. New breakpoints are now available for Fusobacterium…

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Review of breakpoints for ertapenem, imipenem, imipenem-relebactam, meropenem, meropenem-vaborbactam and ceftazidime-avibactam are ongoing. Following the second of two consultations, EUCAST will…

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Copyright (English): The copyright of all documents, data, presentations and videos published on the EUCAST website remains with EUCAST. All are freely available for re-use if reference to the EUCAST website is given and they are not resold. Any secondary publication of documents, data, presentations and videos must be referenced with the declaration that "These data have (or this document, presentation or video has) been produced in part under ECDC service contracts and made available by EUCAST at no cost to the user and can be accessed on the EUCAST website www.eucast.org. The views and opinions expressed are those of EUCAST at a given point in time. EUCAST recommendations are frequently updated and the latest versions are available at www.eucast.org.

 

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Ils peuvent être utilisés à condition d’indiquer la référence du site EUCAST ; par contre, il n’est en aucun cas permis de les revendre. Toute publication se référant à ces données doit comporter la mention suivante “ces données ont été produites par l’EUCAST, notamment lors de collaborations avec l’ECDC. Les vues et opinions exprimées sont celles d'EUCAST à un moment donné. Elles sont accessibles librement et gratuitement grâce au site de l’EUCAST www.eucast.org. Les recommandations de l’EUCAST sont fréquemment mises à jour et les dernières versions sont accessibles sur www.eucast.org."

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