ESCMID Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test course, Linz, September 16 to 19th, 2014

What is about
- We all ever heard about EUCAST and CLSI in determining whether bacteria are susceptible, intermediate or resistance to specific antibiotics
- This course explained how EUCAST come to the break points. Good to refresh the PK/ PD again and good to know what is an ECOFF!
- All types of antibiotic susceptibility tests (ASTs) were revisited. Not many of us have done microdilution for example.
- The role of AST in surveillance was explained

What I like about the course
- We do it all the day but no one really explained the rational behind it
- Fantastic organization
- Warm lunch meal!
- Changing experiences on how to use AST in detecting multidrug resistance microorganisms. In some lab, on market tablets are often used. These tablets are based mainly on synergy test

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