Implementation of the EUCAST disk-diffusion method

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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)
Benefits of a EUCAST diskdiffusion method (based on theKirby-Bauer approach)• Identified as EUCAST method calibrated toEUCAST MIC breakpoints• Wide base of expertise throughout Europe (andworldwide)• KB technique familiar to most laboratories incountries without their own method• Extensive database of MIC v Zone diametersavailable for KB method?
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