TY - JOUR
T1 - Interpreting Burkholderia pseudomallei disc diffusion susceptibility test results by the EUCAST method
AU - Dance, David A.B.
AU - Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn
AU - Baird, Robert W.
AU - Norton, Robert
AU - Limmathurotsakul, Direk
AU - Currie, Bart J.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - In some parts of the tropics, melioidosis is an important public health problem and diagnostic laboratories frequently encounter Burkholderia pseudomallei. Most of these laboratories use disc diffusion for antimicrobial susceptibility testing but have had difficulty with B. pseudomallei because of a lack of internationally accepted criteria to interpret the results. The European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) has recently published guidelines for interpretation of disc diffusion testing for B. pseudomallei, which include the adoption of the new EUCAST interpretative categorisation of susceptibility and resistance...
AB - In some parts of the tropics, melioidosis is an important public health problem and diagnostic laboratories frequently encounter Burkholderia pseudomallei. Most of these laboratories use disc diffusion for antimicrobial susceptibility testing but have had difficulty with B. pseudomallei because of a lack of internationally accepted criteria to interpret the results. The European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) has recently published guidelines for interpretation of disc diffusion testing for B. pseudomallei, which include the adoption of the new EUCAST interpretative categorisation of susceptibility and resistance...
KW - Burkholderia pseudomallei
KW - EUCAST
KW - melioidosis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103007241&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cmi.2021.02.017
DO - 10.1016/j.cmi.2021.02.017
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 33636339
AN - SCOPUS:85103007241
SN - 1198-743X
VL - 27
SP - 827
EP - 829
JO - CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION
JF - CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION
IS - 6
ER -