Dear colleagues,
The following news items have been published in the previous month:
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06 Feb 2023:
Many visits, views and downloads from the EUCAST website!
The statistics on the number of unique visits (50-60 000 per month),
views (100 000 - 140 000 per month) and downloads (40 000 - 60 000 per
month) from the EUCAST website have been updated.
The latest report also lists views for specific pages on the website.
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02 Feb 2023:
The quality of material for EUCAST disk diffusion
EUCAST has investigated and reported on the quality of materials used
for EUCAST disk diffusion antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST);
Mueller-Hinton agar, Pre-poured commercial Mueller-Hinton plates and
antibiotic disks. The publications from these investigations are
available from the EUCAST website (antibiotic disk quality, MH powder quality, pre-poured
plate quality). In most, but not all, instances manufacturers have
taken such reports seriously and amended and improved internal
production quality control. A regular or repeated assessment of the
quality of material for AST is beyond the scope and capability of EUCAST
and rests with the manufacturer and in the end with the end-user of the
material. The assessments performed by the EUCAST Development
Laboratory will assist manufacturers and users to check and improve
quality but cannot serve as a "quality stamp". EUCAST does not recommend
specific manufacturers or brands of media and disks, although on
occasion we will warn against products found to be of insufficient quality. Again, we remind manufacturers
and users to aim for the target values available in EUCAST QC tables
and to use ranges (most commonly of +/- one MIC dilution step and for
zone diameters +/-3 mm) only to set limits for unavoidable random
variation in both MIC and disk diffusion testing.
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01 Feb 2023:
Expert rules, Staphylococcus spp updated
The Staphylococcus spp. Expert Rules document was updated 1 Febr, 2023. The detection of benzylpenicillin resistance in S. lugdunensis is based on the breakpoints only - the assessment of inhibition zome edge has been removed fro S. lugdunensis but remains for S. aureus.
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28 Jan 2023:
New translations to Chinese
The Chinese NAC has translated several EUCAST documents.
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22 Jan 2023:
Mycobacteria AST - inoculum preparation and how to perform CFU counts
Guidance from the EUCAST subcommittee on Antimycobacterial AST (AMST) on inoculum preparation and the performing of CFU counts.
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14 Jan 2023:
Aminopenicillin breakpoints - guidance on implementing revised breakpoints
Aminopenicillin breakpoints were revised in the breakpoint table 13.0 (2023). EUCAST has been asked to provide guidance on how to implement the revised breakpoints in laboratory practice and systems.
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02 Jan 2023:
Updated disk diffusion manuals and reading guidelines
Disk diffusion methods manuals and reading guidelines have been updated.
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02 Jan 2023:
The 13.0 versions of breakpoints, dosing and QC (2023) published.
Breakpoint table v 13.0, dosing table v 13.0 and QC tables v 13.0 (2023) published.
Please visit the EUCAST News page to read more.
All changes to the EUCAST website and to AST recommendations and guidance are listed in a table on the EUCAST website!
With kind regards,
EUCAST
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