Implementation of the EUCAST disk-diffusion method

EUCAST consultation andquestionnaire 2007-8• France and UK likely to maintain their nationalmethods, calibrated to EUCAST breakpoints, forthe immediate future.• Other countries were not keen to take on othernational methods with unfamiliar technique.• Most countries were currently using Kirby-Bauertype methods (particularly “CLSI”) and, if theyadopted EUCAST breakpoints, would prefer toretain the same methodology calibrated toEUCAST breakpoints (.....but get rid of HTM)