Standards of antimicrobial susceptibility testing are used correctly to provide accurate results / 中华检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

To help the clinical microbiology laboratories understanding the standards of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) from Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) ; discuss when to perform AST,how to confirm unusual or inconsistent results and adopt the suitable AST method,how to interpret the information of continuous monitoring development of resistance and testing of repeat isolates,how the drug-resistance mechanism influence the report and treatment.This will provide accurate and timely AST results for clinicians.