Veterinary Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (VetCAST)
VetCAST is a EUCAST subcommittee formed in 2015. It deals with all aspects of antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacterial pathogens of animal origin and animal bacteria with zoonotic potential.
The subcommittee will operate as a standing subcommittee of EUCAST and within the format and structure of EUCAST.
- VetCAST vision, strategy, remits, Steering Committee and committee members (30 Dec, 2019)
(previous version of the document from April 2018). - VetCAST Guidance on how to collect and handle PK data (April 2018)
Rationale documents (florfenicol v 1.0, 2019)
Agendas and minutes of meetings
Newsletters (April 2020, December 2017, December 2016)
Publications
P-L Toutain et al.
En Route towards European Clinical Breakpoints for Veterinary Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: A Position Paper Explaining the VetCAST Approach
Frontiers in Microbiology, December 2017.
Presentations 2016 (Amsterdam)
- Collection of tetracycline MIC data (Kees Veldman)
- Retrieving tetracycline PK/PD data (Ludovic Pelligand)
- VetCast from the industry perspective (Hilde Moyaert)
- How VetCAST will define clinical breakpoints (Pierre-Louis Toutain)
Presentations 2015 (Copenhagen)
- Available breakpoints of antimicrobials for veterinary use (Kees Veldman)
- Setting clinical breakpoints - methodological aspects (P-L Toutain)
