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. 2022 Mar 29;20(3):e07209. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7209

Table F.1.

Antimicrobials reported, methods used, type of data reported and interpretive criteria applied by MSs for human Salmonella AST data in 2020

Country Gentamicin Chloramphenicol Ampicillin Cefotaxime Ceftazidime Meropenem Tigecycline Nalidixic acid Ciprofloxacin/pefloxacin Azithromycin Colistin Sulfonamides Trimethoprim Trimethoprim‐sulfa Tetracyclines Method used Quantitative (Q) or categorical (SIR or PWT/PNWT) Interpretive criteria
Austria ( a ) DD Q Interpreted by ECDC. EUCAST ECOFFs for all except CLSI CBP for SUL
Belgium DL Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria. EFSA criteria for AZM MIC
Cyprus DL/DLG Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria, except for CTX, MEM and SXT where EUCAST CBP were used
Denmark DL Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria. EFSA criteria for AZM MIC
Estonia DL Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria
Finland ( a ) DD Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria
France DL Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria. EFSA criteria for AZM MIC
Hungary ( a ) DD SIR EUCAST CBP except CLSI CBP for NAL, SUL and TET

Iceland

( a ) DD SIR EUCAST CBP
Ireland WGS PWT/PNWT Sequencing results interpreted by the laboratory with BioNumerics tools for acquired AMR genes and point mutations
Italy ( a ) DD/DL Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria
Latvia DD SIR No recent information on guidelines used
Luxembourg ( a ) DD/DL/DLG Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria
Malta DL/DLG/DD Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria
Netherlands DL Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria. EFSA criteria for AZM MIC
Norway ( a ) DD Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria
Portugal ( a ) DD Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria
Romania ( a ) DD Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria
Slovakia DD/DL SIR EUCAST CBP except CLSI CBP for NAL, SUL and TET
Slovenia ( a ) DD/DLG Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria
Spain ( a ) DD Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria
Sweden WGS PWT/PNWT Sequencing results interpreted by the laboratory with NCBI AMRFinder and CGE ResFinder and PointFinder

AST: antimicrobial susceptibility testing; CBP: clinical breakpoint; DD: disk diffusion; DL: dilution; DLG: dilution with gradient strip; WGS: whole genome sequencing; Q: quantitative data; SIR: susceptible standard dosing regimen, susceptible increased exposure, resistant (categorical data); PWT/PNWT: predicted wild type/predicted non‐wild type (categorical); ECDC: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control; ECOFF: epidemiological cut‐off; CLSI: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; EUCAST: European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information, US; CGE: Center for Genomic Epidemiology, Denmark; MIC: minimum inhibitory concentration.

AZM: azithromycin; CTX: cefotaxime; GEN: gentamicin; MEM: meropenem; NAL: nalidixic acid; SUL: sulfonamides; TET: tetracycline.

(a)

Pefloxacin used in disk diffusion.