The European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing - EUCAST
EUCAST is a standing committee jointly organized by ESCMID, ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) and European national breakpoint committees. The Steering Committee is supported by a General Committee with representatives from European countries, FESCI and ISC. Experts within the fields of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, in pharmaceutical companies and susceptibility testing manufacturers are being consulted by the EUCAST Steering Committee before final decisions.
EUCAST has harmonized antimicrobial breakpoints in Europe. EUCAST breakpoints will be available in devices for automated susceptibility testing during 2009. A European disk test is being developed for launch at the end of 2009.
EUCAST has subcommittees on Antifungal Susceptibility Testing, Susceptibility testing of anaerobes and a subcommittee on Interpretative reading and Expert rules in susceptibility testing.
Expert rules
Expert rules, intrinsic resistance and interpretive reading in antimicrobial susceptibility testing
Distributions of EUCAST MIC values
Aggregated MIC values from sometimes more than 100 000 determinations
Distributions of EUCAST disk diffusion susceptibility test inhibition zone diameters
EUCAST offers this free website of distributions of MIC-values of wild type bacteria and fungi.
EUCAST disk diffusion susceptibility test inhibition zone diameters
Information for industry
Information for pharmaceutical industry and industry involved in susceptibility testing
EUCAST invites anyone with an interest in antimicrobial agents in general and antimicrobial breakpoints in particular to contact EUCAST, ESCMID or one of the National Breakpoint Committees.
Chairman:
Gunnar Kahlmeter
Scientific Secretary:
Derek Brown
Clinical Data Coordinator:
