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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 1998, p. 824-826, Vol. 36, No. 3
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Evaluation of the E Test for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates from Patients with Long-Term Bladder Catheterization

Giovanni Di Bonaventura,1 Evandro Ricci,2 Nicoletta Della Loggia,3 Giovanni Catamo,1 and Raffaele Piccolomini1,*

Laboratorio di Microbiologia Clinica, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università "G. D'Annunzio", Chieti,1 Modulo di Microbiologia, Laboratorio Analisi, Presidio Ospedaliero di Popoli, ASL Pescara,2 and Sezione di Microbiologia, Laboratorio Analisi, Ospedale Civile di Atri, ASL Teramo,3 Italy

Received 2 June 1997/Returned for modification 8 October 1997/Accepted 4 December 1997

The E test was evaluated in comparison with reference agar methods (National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards) for the susceptibility testing of 248 Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from bladder-catheterized patients against nine antibiotics. The E-test MICs correlated well with those determined by the agar dilution and disk diffusion reference methods (88 and 92.5% within 1 log2 dilution step, respectively), confirming that the E test is a reliable method for the determination of MICs of antibiotics for catheterization-associated P. aeruginosa isolates.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Sezione di Microbiologia, Università "G. D'Annunzio", Via dei Vestini 31, I-66100 Chieti, Italy. Phone: (39) 871-3555283. Fax: (39) 871-3555282. E-mail: piccolomini{at}dsb.unich.it.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 1998, p. 824-826, Vol. 36, No. 3
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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