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EUCAST guidelines are one of the most popular breakpoint guidelines used in antimicrobial susceptibility testing worldwide. The EUCAST guidelines are freely available to all of their users.
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Kahlmeter, G.; Brown, D.F.J.; Goldstein, F.W.; MacGowan, A.P.; Mouton, J.W.; Odenholt, I.; Rodloff, A.; Soussy, C-J.; Steinbakk, M.; Soriano, F.; Stetsiouk, O. (2006).
61: 68: 75: 57: 235:(EUCAST) is a scientific committee for defining guidelines to interpret antimicrobial resistance. It was formed in 1997 and is jointly organized by 458: 261:(reported as "R") or antimicrobial susceptibility (reported as "S") differs for all bug-drug combinations which is why guidelines are needed. 439: 250: 82: 413: 257:(MICs), the lowest concentration of a chemical, usually a drug, which prevents visible growth of bacterium. The interpretation to 280:"European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) Technical Notes on antimicrobial susceptibility testing" 279: 108: 254: 432: 46: 468: 463: 425: 258: 35: 139: 8: 372: 345: 377: 301: 296: 367: 357: 291: 409: 362: 452: 405: 381: 305: 170: 24: 203: 277: 236: 176: 128: 397: 58:"European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing" 240: 233:
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Nonprofit organization
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Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
minimum inhibitory concentrations
antimicrobial resistance
"European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) Technical Notes on antimicrobial susceptibility testing"
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10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01454.x
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16700696
"EUCAST: EUCAST"
"Comparison of Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing guidelines for the interpretation of antibiotic susceptibility at a University teaching hospital in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross-sectional study"
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