Influence of analysis conditions for antimicrobial susceptibility test data on susceptibility rates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To support effective antibiotic selection in empirical treatments, infection control interventions, and antimicrobial resistance containment strategies, many medical institutions collect antimicrobial susceptibility test data conducted at their facilities to prepare cumulative antibiograms.

Aim

To evaluate how the setpoints of duplicate isolate removal period and data collection period affect the calculated susceptibility rates in antibiograms.

Methods

The Sakai City Medical Center is a regional core hospital for tertiary emergency medical care with 480 beds for general clinical care. In this study, all the Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates collected at the Sakai City Medical Center Clinical Laboratory between July

SUBMITTER: Hatsuda Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7310835 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature