New or revised interpretive criteria are available for the following drugs:
Ertapenem disk diffusion and minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) interpretive criteria for Enterobacteriaceae
Ciprofloxacin disk diffusion and MIC interpretive criteria for reporting against Salmonella typhi and extraintestinal Salmonella spp. only
Piperacillin, piperacillin-tazobactam, ticarcillin, and ticarcillin-clavulanic acid disk diffusion and MIC interpretive criteria for Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Doripenem for P. aeruginosa; methicillin-susceptible staphylococci;Haemophilus influenzae, Haemophilus parainfluenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae (MIC only), Streptococcus spp. (ß-hemolytic and viridans group MIC only), and anaerobes
Imipenem and meropenem for P. aeruginosa
Added:
New penicillin disk diffusion zone-edge test as an additional screening test for β-lactamase production in the Staphylococcus aureus group
Cefamandole to the list of antimicrobial agents to which BLNAR (β-lactamase negative, ampicillin-resistant) strains of H. influenzae should be considered resistant
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