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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Jul 1996, 1691-1693, Vol 34, No. 7
Copyright © 1996 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Multisite reproducibility of the Etest MIC method for antifungal susceptibility testing of yeast isolates

MA Pfaller, SA Messer, A Bolmstrom, FC Odds and JH Rex
Department of Pathology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA.

A multicenter study was performed to establish the interlaboratory reproducibility of Etest, to provide an additional comparison of Etest MICs with reference broth macrodilution MICs, and to develop some tentative quality control (QC) guidelines for using Etest for antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida spp. Two QC strains, Candida parapsilosis ATCC 22019 and Candida krusei ATCC 6258, were tested by Etest against amphotericin B, fluconazole, flucytosine, itraconazole, and ketoconazole in each of four laboratories. The QC strains were tested 20 times each against the five antifungal agents by using a common lot of RPMI agar. A total of 80 MICs per drug per strain were generated during the study. Overall, 98 to 100% of the MICs fell within a 3 log2 dilution range for the respective yeast-antifungal agent combinations. The level of agreement of Etest MICs with broth macrodilution MICs was 86 to 100% with amphotericin B (C. krusei and C. parapsilosis), itraconazole (C. krusei and C. parapsilosis), flucytosine (C. parapsilosis), and fluconazole (C. parapsilosis). A lower level of agreement was observed with ketoconazole (C. krusei and C. parapsilosis). Although all participants reported identical Etest MICs, the MICs of flucytosine and fluconazole when tested against C. krusei fell well above the upper limits of the reference range for this strain. The tentative QC limits for the two QC strains and five antifungal agents when tested by the Etest methodology are the same as the QC limits when tested by the reference broth macrodilution method for amphotericin B and C. krusei, itraconazole and C. krusei, flucytosine and C. parapsilosis, fluconazole and C. parapsilosis, and itraconazole and C. parapsilosis. The Etest QC ranges are 1 dilution broader (4-dilution range) than the reference macrodilution method QC ranges for ketoconazole and C. krusei, amphotericin B and C. parapsilosis, and ketoconazole and C. parapsilosis.


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