Evaluation of the Disk Diffusion Test for Bacteroides fragilis Group Clinical Isolates.

Autor:	Lee Y; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea., Bae MH; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea., Lee H; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea., Kim M; Seoul Clinical Laboratory, Yongin, Korea., Lee K; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.; Seoul Clinical Laboratory, Yongin, Korea.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Annals of laboratory medicine [Ann Lab Med] 2025 Jan 01; Vol. 45 (1), pp. 70-76. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 30.
DOI:	10.3343/alm.2024.0159
Abstrakt:	Background: Bacteroides fragilis group (BFG) isolates are the most frequently isolated gram-negative anaerobic bacteria and exhibit higher levels of antimicrobial resistance than other anaerobic bacteria. Reliable susceptibility testing is needed because of reports of resistance to the most active antibiotics. Recently, the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) introduced disk zone diameter breakpoints. We evaluated the disk diffusion test (DDT) for susceptibility testing of BFG isolates compared with the agar dilution method. Methods: In total, 150 BFG isolates were collected from three institutes in Korea. The agar dilution method was conducted according to the CLSI guidelines. DDT was performed following the EUCAST guideline. Fastidious anaerobe agar supplemented with 5% defibrinated horse blood was used as the culture medium. Nine antimicrobials were evaluated: penicillin, cefoxitin, cefotetan, imipenem, meropenem, piperacillin-tazobactam, clindamycin, moxifloxacin, and metronidazole. Results: The categorical agreement (CA) between the two methods was >90.0% for imipenem, meropenem, clindamycin, and metronidazole. However, the CA for piperacillintazobactam was low, at 83.2%. Major errors were found: 5.4% for imipenem, 7.4% for meropenem, and 12.8% for piperacillin-tazobactam. All minor errors were <10%. We propose using the area of technical uncertainty (ATU) zone-overlapping area for susceptible and resistant strains to reduce errors in the DDT. Outside the ATU, the CAs of cefoxitin, cefotetan, and piperacillin-tazobactam were >90.0%, whereas that of moxifloxacin was increased to 88.5%. Conclusions: The DDT can be a useful alternative antimicrobial susceptibility test for BFG isolates when using the ATU zone to reduce errors.
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