International dissemination of Escherichia coli strains with discrepant behaviour in phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility tests

Autor: Gilles Zambardi, A. van Belkum, Dee Shortridge, David Creely, Wm. Michael Dunne, Carole Shubert, Michel Peyret, Jean Pierre Gayral
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: European journal of clinical microbiologyinfectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology. 32(8)
ISSN: 1435-4373
Popis: Preventing the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance depends on appropriate antibiotic stewardship and accurate antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST). We report the international dissemination of Escherichia coli strains, showing discrepancies between reference methods when phenotypically tested for susceptibility to piperacillin/tazobactam (TZP). We demonstrate that these related strains are predisposed to problematic TZP AST interpretations.
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