Oxoid has announced that its range of products for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) includes all products recommended by EUCAST for use in the harmonised European disc-diffusion method.
The Oxoid range includes: all the antimicrobial compounds recommended in the new EUCAST method, as part of the standard Oxoid range of antimicrobial discs; Mueller-Hinton Agar in dehydrated form or a variety of prepared media formats (plain or with defibrinated horse blood and NAD; ergonomically designed disc dispensers for the accurate placement of discs onto a variety of agar plate sizes (90, 120 and 140mm); the Oxoid Turbidometer for accurate preparation of 0.5 McFarland inocula; and a range of QC organisms, including all EUCAST-recommended strains, in Culti-Loop format for quick, easy and safe preparation of standardised cultures.
The European disc-diffusion methodology has been calibrated to EUCAST-harmonised MIC breakpoints, which are now in use throughout Europe.
