This is to wish all EUCAST users a happy and successful new year and to summarise some recent changes and additions to the EUCAST system.
- Breakpoint tables v 12.0 (2022) with MIC and disk diffusion criteria for Vibrio sppand revised breakpoints for anaerobic bacteria and disk diffusion zone diameter breakpoints
- Disk diffusion methodology for anaerobic bacteria - methodology anda disk diffusion reading guide .
- Revised guidance onwhat to do when there are no breakpoints .
- New guidance on Screening for resistance of clinical significance .
- How to deal with breakpoints in brackets in EUCAST breakpoint tables.
- RAST updates - rapid AST directly from positive blood culture bottles.
Ongoing projects for 2022:
- Nocardiae breakpoints and AST methodology
- Revised breakpoints for Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium ulcerans
- Review of breakpoints and methods for viridans streptococci.
- Extension of thelist of agents with breakpoints for anaerobic bacteria
- RAST - criteria for extended incubation time beyond 8h.
- Dosing tables for paediatrics in collaboration with ESPID (European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases)
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