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EUCAST news and updates

Dear colleagues,

The following news items have been published in the previous month:

• 28 May 2024:  Updated version of "Guidance on intrevenous use of fosfomycin"
  

  The guidance document on "Intravenous use of fosfomycin" updated. See guidance documents.

   

• 22 May 2024:  Aztreonam-avibactam and cefepime-enmetazobactam breakpoints published
  

  MIC and zone diameter breakpoints for aztreonam-avibactam and cefepime-enmetazobactam are now available as addenda to the clinical breakpoint table 14.0. 

   

  The breakpoints will be integrated in the regular breakpoint table 15.0, 1 Jan, 2025. 

   

   

   

• 19 May 2024:  The Belgian NAC presented
  

  A presentation of the Belgian NAC is posted. 

   

• 11 May 2024:  General Committee 2024 meeting - minutes published
  

  The EUCAST General Committee meeting 2024 was held in Barcelona during ESCMID Global. The minutes are now available.

   

• 07 May 2024:  Proposed change of breakpoints for aminopenicillins in enterococci
  

   

  Proposed change of breakpoints for aminopenicillins in enterococci (consultation period 7 May - 14 June, 2024). 
  

  Public consultation is part of the EUCAST decision process. The consultation period is 4 - 12 weeks, and the dates of the beginning and end of the period is clearly stated. Comments not entered into the designated document will not be considered (download form for comments). 

   

   

• 03 May 2024:  Consultation: benzylpenicillin breakpoints for S.pneumoniae and Viridans group streptococci
  

  EUCAST consultation (3 May - 14 June) on breakpoints for Streptococcus pneumoniae and viridans group streptococci.

   

• 03 May 2024:  Aztreonam-avibactam and cefepime-enmetazobactam now available.
  

  Aztreonam-avibactam has now obtained regulatory approval and breakpoints from EMA and EUCAST for Enterobacterales.

   

  These are S≤4, R>4 mg/L. Disk diffusion criteria and QC targets and ranges will be published shortly. There are no breakpoints for other species.

   

  Cefepime-enmtazobactam has now obtained regulatory approval breakpoints from EMA and EUCAST for Enterobacterales.

   

  These  are S≤4, R>4 mg/L. Disk diffusion criteria and QC targets and ranges will be published shortly. There are no breakpoints for other species.

   

  The new agents will be part of the next EUCAST breakpoint table 15.0 (1st of January 2025). In the meantime we will soon publish an addendum for the two agents with information on disk contents (potencies), zone diameter correlates and QC criteria.

   

Please visit the EUCAST News page to read more.

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With kind regards,
EUCAST