Effects of Various Test Media on the Activities of 21 Antimicrobial Agents against Haemophilus influenzae
AUTOR(ES)
Jacobs, Michael R.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
As considerable variation in the antimicrobial susceptibility of Haemophilus influenzae has been reported, the effects of various test media on the susceptibility of H. influenzae were studied. MICs were determined by three laboratories for 21 antimicrobial agents against a panel of 100 selected isolates. Testing was performed using a reference NCCLS frozen broth microdilution method with Haemophilus test medium (HTM) broth and dried commercial MIC trays rehydrated with the following media: in-house and commercially prepared HTM broth, Mueller-Hinton broth with 2% lysed horse blood and NAD, IsoSensitest broth with 2% lysed horse blood and NAD, and IsoSensitest broth-based HTM. Overall, all results were very reproducible, with the MIC at which 50% of the isolates tested are inhibited (MIC50), MIC90, and geometric mean MIC being within one doubling dilution by all six methods and at all three testing centers for 15 of the 21 agents tested. Interlaboratory differences were more marked than intralaboratory differences or differences among media. Cefprozil, cefaclor, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole results differed the most, while results for ampicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, cefdinir, cefixime, ceftriaxone, and clarithromycin were the most reproducible. However, these variations in results caused considerable differences in susceptibility rates for agents for which NCCLS susceptible breakpoints were close to the geometric mean MIC, particularly for cefaclor and cefprozil. This was much less of a problem when pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic breakpoints were used. Reproducible susceptibility results were obtained for a wide range of agents against H. influenzae in three laboratories using a variety of media that support the growth of this fastidious species.
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