The program uses categorical data that are obtained in routine diagnostics. It is intended to serve as a tool to give ideas and to help in identification of resistance mechanisms. Without additional data it must not be used to guide therapy in patients.
Enterobacteria
Staphylococci/Enterococci
Pseudomonas,
Acinetobacter, Stenotrophomonas
The programm is mainly based on the following publications:
Livermore DM, Winstanley TG, Shannon KP. Interpretative reading: recognizing the unusual and inferring resistance mechanisms from resistance phenotypes. J Antimicrob Chemother 2001; 48 Suppl 1: 87-102.
Courvalin P. Interpretive Reading of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests. ASM News 1992; 58: 368-375; 1992.
Livermore DM. beta-Lactamases in laboratory and clinical resistance.
Clin Microbiol Rev 1995; 8: 557-84Vila J, Marco F. Lectura interpretada del antibiograma de bacilos gramnegativos no fermentadores. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 2010; 28: 726-736.
Leclercq R, et al. EUCAST expert rules in susceptibility testing. Clin Microbiol Infect 2011; doi 10.1111/j.1469-069.2011.03703.x
Sören Gatermann Abteilung für Medizinische Mikrobiologie Ruhr-Universität Bochum 44801 Bochum mailto:soeren.gatermann@rub.de?subject=ResErk
Last update: 2012-04-16