EUCAST News
Here you can find the latest news and updates from EUCAST.
Aminoglycoside breakpoints - publication in CMI 2025
Aminoglycoside breakpoints – the EUCAST approach and what this means for the clinician. C. Giske et al, 2025. Abstractin CMI. [more]
Updated Warning against gradient tests for benzylpenicillin MICs in S. pneumoniae.
TheWarning against the use of gradient tests for determiningbenzylpenicillin MICs in S. pneumoniaewasupdated August 2025. [more]
Recommendations for modifications to the ISO broth microdilution MIC method
A joint EUCAST and CLSI working group has published recommendations for when and how modifications to the ISO refernce method for broth microdilution MIC deterrmination are accepted. [more]
Daptomycin wild type MIC distributions and ECOFFs reviewed
Daptomycin MIC distributions for staphylococcal species have been added and ECOFFs determined following the update. Changes to ECOFFs are few and evident from the list of individual species and ECOFFs. Daptomycin resistance...[more]
Consultation on adding a comment for susceptible carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales
See the consultation on the proposed addition of a comment when reporting Enterobacterales susceptible to carbapenems despite the presence of carbapenem resistance mechanisms. Consultation. [more]
EUCAST to review carbapenem breakpoints
EUCAST aims to review breakpoints for carbapenems, alone and in combination with inhibitors. Anyone with data to support a breakpoint process are invited to highlight and submit relevant evidence. At the end of the EUCAST...[more]
How to make use of EUCAST MIC and zone distributions
EUCAST distributions of MIC and Zone diameters (https:/mic.eucast.org; choose either “MIC” or “Disk diffusion”) are freely available. When sufficiently many acceptable distributions are available to the curators, ECOFFs are...[more]
