Caribbean External Quality Assurance Program in Bacteriology and Antimicrobial Resistance (PCC-CAR)
INFORMATIVE NEWSLETTER No. 23 – May 2022
Dear Colleagues of the «Caribbean External Quality Assurance Program in Bacteriology and Antimicrobial Resistance»(PCC-CAR):
In the present newsletter we are sending you:
1) CLSI 2022 News: summary of the most relevant news published in January 2022 in the M100S 32nd Edition Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI): “Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; Thirty second Informational Supplement”. M. Rapoport.
2) Polymyxin susceptibility testing and interpretive breakpoints: recommendations from the United States Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (USCAST). Pogue JM y col. 2020. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 64:e01495-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01495-19
3) Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) position statements on polymyxin B and colistin clinical breakpoints. Satlin M y col. 2020. Clinical Infectious Diseases 71(9). DOI:10.1093/cid/ciaa121
4) Overview of Changes to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing, M100, 31st Edition. Humphries R y col. 2021. J Clin Microbiol 59:e00213-21. https://doi.org/10 .1128/JCM.00213-21 Best regards and we will keep in touch!.
Alejandra Corso and Paula Gagetti.
Servicio Antimicrobianos
Regional Reference Laboratory on Antimicrobial Resistance (RRL)
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas
ANLIS «Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán».
Secretaria de Salud y Desarrollo Social
Av. Velez Sarsfield 563 (1281)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
+54 11 43032812