TABLE 3.
MIC frequency distribution for Escherichia coli, Bacteroides fragilis, and Staphylococcus aureus isolates collected from the EUCAST database
| Organism | No. of isolates | % of isolates with indicated cefoxitin MIC (mg/liter)a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <0.125 | 0.125 | 0.25 | 0.5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 32 | 64 | >64 | ||
| E. coli | 66,874 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 6.9 | 34.3 | 37.1 | 12.8 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.1 |
| B. fragilis | 1,898 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 27.5 | 34.4 | 17.4 | 8.8 | 3.6 | 5.1 |
| S. aureus | 856 | 0 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 7.8 | 32.4 | 27.8 | 19.5 | 3.4 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 3.6 |
a
Current CLSI susceptibility MIC breakpoints are indicated by distribution percentages that are underlined.