Interpretive criteria and quality control parameters for testing of susceptibilities of Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pneumoniae to trimethoprim and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. The Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing OC Group.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology
P C FuchsS D Brown

Abstract

Two hundred twenty-eight strains of Haemophilus influenzae and 234 strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae were tested by broth microdilution and disk diffusion methods for susceptibility to trimethoprim (TMP) and TMP-sulfamethoxazole (SMX) to evaluate proposed criteria. Data are presented to support the proposed TMP MIC breakpoints of < or = 2.0 micrograms/ml for susceptibility and > or = 4.0 micrograms/ml for resistance for both species and TMP-SMX MIC breakpoints of < or = 2.0-38 micrograms/ml for susceptibility and > or = 4.0-76 micrograms/ml for resistance. Corresponding zone diameter breakpoints for H. influenzae for both drugs are proposed: < or = 10 mm = resistant; > or = 16 mm = susceptible. A 10-laboratory study documented reproducibility of such tests with standard control strains. The following control limits are proposed for tests of H. influenzae ATCC 49247 against TMP; MIC, 0.12 to 0.5 microgram/ml; zone diameter, 27 to 33 mm. The current limits for TMP-SMX were confirmed. For tests of S. pneumoniae ATCC 49619, MICs of TMP were 1.0 to 4.0 micrograms/ml and the current TMP-SMX MIC range was confirmed. Disk susceptibility tests of either drug against pneumococci were not reproducible, and consequently neither quality c...Continue Reading

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