Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Department of Microbiology, JIPMER, Puducherry, India

Publications

• Review Article   
  Interim Proposal for Surveillance of Multidrug-Resistant, Extensively Drug-Resistant and Pandrug-Resistant Bacteria for the Automated AST User Centres
  Author(s): Sastry Apurba Sankar*, Priyadarshi Ketan, Rajashekar Deepashree and Rai Sumit
  
  In the era of increased Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), it is important that Healthcare Facilities (HCFs) should conduct surveillance to know the true estimate of drug resistant organisms such as Multidrug-Resistant (MDR), Extensively Drug-Resistant (XDR) and pandrug-resistant (PDR) bacteria prevalent in their facility. The limitations of disk diffusion method used for comparison of AMR data are largely overcome by use of MIC based automated AST method. These systems use panels comprising of fixed set of large number of antimicrobials and provide standard testing protocol which remains uniform across the user HCFs. The use of automated AST systems has been increasing in the recent past and is expected to expand further in future. Among the automated AST systems available, VITEK-2 is the most extensively used platform both globally (~63%) and in India (~85%). This study provides the guide.. Read More»
  

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