Analysis and Presentation of Cumulative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Data--The Influence of Different Parameters in a Routine Clinical Microbiology Laboratory.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many clinical microbiology laboratories report on cumulative antimicrobial susceptibility testing (cAST) data on a regular basis. Criteria for generation of cAST reports, however, are often obscure and inconsistent. Whereas the CLSI has published a guideline for analysis and presentation of cAST data, national guidelines directed at clinical microbiology laboratories are not available in Europe. Thus, we sought to describe the influence of different parameters in the process of cAST data analysis in the setting of a German routine clinical microbiology laboratory during 2 consecutive years.

Material and methods

We developed various program scripts to assess the consequences ensuing from different algorithms for calculation of cumulative antibiograms from the dat

SUBMITTER: Kohlmann R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4729434 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature