2007–2011 (n=131a) | 2012–2016 (n=95a; no EQA in 2013) | ||||
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No. | % | No. | % | ||
Antimicrobial susceptibility test | Etestb | 72 | 55.0 | 73 | 76.8 |
Agar dilution | 26 | 19.8 | 13 | 13.7 | |
Disk diffusion | 28 | 21.4 | 3 | 3.2 | |
Disk diffusion and Etests | 5 | 3.8 | 6 | 6.3 | |
Culture media/base | GC agar base | 83 | 63.4 | 51 | 53.7 |
Chocolatised blood agar | 33 | 25.2 | 23 | 24.2 | |
Diagnostic sensitivity (DST) agar | 7 | 5.3 | 5 | 5.3 | |
Thayer-Martin agar (non-selective) | 5 | 3.8 | 10 | 10.5 | |
Blood agar base | 2 | 1.5 | 1 | 1.1 | |
None specified | 1 | 0.8 | 5 | 5.3 | |
Guidelines/breakpoints c | CLSI | 97 | 69.8 | 23 | 24.2 |
None specified | 17 | 12.2 | 1 | 1.1 | |
GRASP – United Kingdom | 7 | 5.0 | 4 | 4.2 | |
CACFM – France | 3 | 2.2 | 4 | 4.2 | |
SRGA – Sweden | 5 | 3.6 | 0 | 0.0 | |
EUCAST | 9 | 6.5 | 62d | 65.3 | |
WHO | 1 | 0.7 | 1 | 1.1 |