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. 2023 Mar 6;21(3):e07867. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2023.7867

Table F.1.

Antimicrobials reported, methods used, type of data reported and interpretive criteria applied by MSs for human Salmonella AST data in 2021

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.
Bulgaria DL Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria except for MEM where EUCAST CBP were used.
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. MIC ECOFF for TGC according to EFSA reporting manual 2021.
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. MIC ECOFF for TGC according to EFSA reporting manual 2021.
Germany DL Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria.
Greece (a) DD Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria.
Hungary DD SIR EUCAST CBP except CLSI CBP for NAL, SUL and TET
Iceland (a) DD Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria.
Italy (a) DD/DL Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria.
Latvia DD SIR No recent information on guidelines used.
Lithuania DL/DD SIR EUCAST CBP
Luxembourg (a) DD/DLG Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria.
Malta (a) DL/DLG/DD Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria, except for CTX and MEM where EUCAST CBP were used.
Netherlands DL Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria. MIC ECOFF for TGC according to EFSA reporting manual 2021.
Norway (a) DD Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria.
Poland DD/DLG/DL Q Interpreted by ECDC, as for Austria. MIC ECOFF for TGC according to EFSA reporting manual 2021.
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.