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Multicenter Studies of Tigecycline Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Results for Acinetobacter spp.

Acinetobacter sp. isolates having multidrug resistance (MDR) patterns have become common in many medical centers worldwide, limiting therapeutic options. A five-center study tested 103 contemporary clinical Acinetobacter spp., including MDR strains, by reference broth microdilution and disk diffusion (15-mug disk content) methods against tigecycline. Applying U.S. Food and Drug Administration tigecycline breakpoint criteria for Enterobacteriaceae (susceptibility at </=2 mug/ml [</=1 mug/ml by the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing]; disk diffusion breakpoints at >/=19 mm and </=14 mm) to Acinetobacter spp. led to an unacceptable error rate (23.3%). However, an adjustment of tigecycline disk diffusion breakpoints (susceptible/resistant) to >/=16/</=12 mm reduced intermethod errors to an acceptable level (only 9.7%, all minor).[1]

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  1. Multicenter Studies of Tigecycline Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Results for Acinetobacter spp. Jones, R.N., Ferraro, M.J., Reller, L.B., Schreckenberger, P.C., Swenson, J.M., Sader, H.S. J. Clin. Microbiol. (2007) [Pubmed]
 
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