EUCAST News
Here you can find the latest news and updates from EUCAST.
Manufacturers of MH-F and FAA plates to contact EUCAST
Manufacturers and distributors of prepoured MH-F and FAA agar plates for EUCAST susceptibility testing by disk diffusion of fastidious (medium MH-F with horse blood) and anaerobic species (medium FAA with horseblood) are...[more]
Fluoroquinolone breakpoints under review
Fluroquinolone breakpoints are under review and will likely be lowered for Enterobacterales whereas breakpoints for other species are less likely to change. Laboratories and manufacturers of susceptibility testing devices are...[more]
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]
