Role of NCCLS in antimicrobial susceptibility testing and ... | 合法醫療器材資訊網

由CCGinocchio著作·2002·被引用36次—NCCLSgroupsantimicrobialsforsusceptibilitytestingandreportingonthebasisoftheirclinicalefficacy,knownpatternsofmicrobialresistance, ...

The role of NCCLS (formerly known as the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards) in establishing guidelines for antimicrobial susceptibility testing, NCCLSs consensus-building process, and new interpretive criteria for antimicrobial susceptibility testing for 2002 are described. When revising and developing new guidelines, NCCLS uses an extensive process to reach consensus, while considering the clinical relevance, cost, and other practical implications of the proposed guidelines. NCCLS groups antimicrobials for susceptibility testing and reporting on the basis of their clinical efficacy, known patterns of microbial resistance, strategies to minimize the emergence of resistance, consensus recommendations, and cost to avoid unnecessary testing. NCCLS guidelines address quality control issues and current methodologies, such as conventional disk diffusion and microbroth dilution tests. In addition, new testing method...