Vancomycin-resistant enterococci in hospitals

Abstract

ESBL (CDS 100% and others 82%, 2011, 6:1b); and (iv) detection of meropenem resistance in Citrobacter freundii mediated by a carbapenemase (CDS method 95%, other methods 71%, 2013, 4:1b). The future of the CDSRegistrants as CDS users continue to grow and number over 200 at present. The CDS method is now being used by laboratories in South East Asia, India and South Africa. It is unfortunate that a number of Australian public laboratories have changed from using the CDS method to other methods as a result of executive decisions apparently based on reasons other than scientific merit. As long as antimicrobial susceptibility testing is performed in diagnostic laboratories the CDS will continue to provide a service to Australasian and a number of overseas laboratories. The original CDS team has been joined by younger scientific and medical staff who will carry on the tradition of supporting a high-performance national antibiotic susceptibility test method well into the future. AcknowledgementsWe acknowledge the Board of Education of the RCPA for its support of the development of a uniform method of susceptibility testing in Australia, the staff of SEALS Microbiology, many of whom have made significant contributions to the development of the CDS, The Australian Society for Microbiology (ASM) in supporting the Annual CDS Workshops and finally the CDS users whose feedback has led to so many improvements and enhancements of the CDS.