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. 2022 Oct;14(5):636–644. doi: 10.18502/ijm.v14i5.10956

Table 3.

In-vitro antibacterial activity of FP against 181 urinary isolates using E-test and DD and categorization of errors compared with AD method

Organism CLSI (%) EUCAST (%)

DD E-test DD E-test

CA mE ME VM E EA CA mE ME VME CA ME VME CA ME VME
E. coli (113) 94.7 0.9 3.8 14.3 91.2 95.6 1.8 1.9 14.3 87.6 6.1 53.3 88.5 5.1 53.3
Klebsiella pneumoniae (38) 92.1 0 8.6 0 89.5 92.1 5.3 2.9 0 55.3 47.1 25 94.7 5.9 25
Other Enterobacterales (8) 100 0 0 0 87.5 87.5 12.5 0 0 87.5 12.5 0 87.5 12.5 0
Enterococcus spp. (8) 75 12.5 14.3 0 100 100 0 0 0 75 28.6 0 87.5 14.3 0
P. aeruginosa (14) 100 0 0 0 92.9 100 0 0 0 85.7 7.7 100 85.7 7.7 100
Total (181) 93.9 1.1 4.7 9.1 91.2 95 2.8 1.8 9.1 80.1 16.3 52.4 88.9 6.3 52.4

EA: Essential agreement, CA: Categorical agreement, mE: Minor error, ME: Major error, VME: Very major error, DD: Disc diffusion, CLSI: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, EUCAST: European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing