Automated and semi-automated methods for antifungal
susceptibility testing have been developed by the European Committee on Antimicrobial
Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) which are simple, affordable and easy to perform.11,12 There is a fully automated commercial method called Vitek 2 antifungal susceptibility system that indicates yeast growth spectrophotometrically.13
Antimicrobial
susceptibility testing (AST) is normally carried out in hospital laboratories and results take 2-3 days to arrive back with a GP.
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)--European Committee on Antimicrobial
Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) (5), Enterobacteriaceae, P.
Standardised of inoculum is a main problem in DAST, so it has been criticised by American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BASC), and the European Committee on Antimicrobial
Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) (2).
Drug
susceptibility testing from isolates of 1270 TB patients were carried out by standard drug proportion method.
Antifungal
susceptibility testing of Malassezia yeast: comparison of two different methodologies.
Susceptibility testing of PZA requires using acidified culture media; the pH must be sufficiently low to allow for good PZA activity while not being so low as to inhibit bacterial growth solely on the basis of acidity.
Breast and ovarian cancer based predictive testing accounted for the largest share owing to the rising use of
susceptibility testing for BRCA mutations cancer prediction.
Susceptibility testing should be done after failure of two treatments and rescue therapy should be based on
susceptibility testing.
The company's technology and product portfolio for human and veterinary antibiotic resistance and specialty
susceptibility testing further expands Bruker's microbiology business, which is based on rapid, broad-based microbial identification using Bruker's market-leading Maldi Biotyper (MBT) platform for proteomic fingerprinting.
Lehours, "Helicobacter pylori detection and antimicrobial
susceptibility testing," Clinical Microbiology Reviews, vol.