EUCAST news and updates Dear colleagues, The following news items have been published in the previous month: - 24 Apr 2025: Daptomycin in endocarditis and bloodstream infections caused by enterococci - revised
Daptomycin in endocarditis and bloodstream infections caused by enterococci (revised 23 April, 2025). - 23 Apr 2025: Information on the Republic of Moldava updated
There is new and updated information on the NAC organised by the Republic of Moldavia. See information on "Moldavia" and the "Republic of Moldova" on the website dedicated to NACs. - 10 Apr 2025: EUCAST Website visits new record
The EUCAST website has many visits and more than twice as many page views per month. For the first time the monthly number of visits to the website passed 100 000 per month. For those of you who are interested, full statistics are updated quarterly - see website statistics. - 04 Apr 2025: EUCAST Workshop, ESCMID Global, Saturday 12 April, 8.30 - 11:30 CEST.
Chairs: Alasdair MacGowan (Bristol, United Kingdom), Marlene Amara (Versailles, France) EUCAST update, Sören G. Gatermann (Bochum, Germany) Setting clinical breakpoints, assessing evidence, Anouk Muller (The Hague, Netherlands) Benzylpenicillin susceptibility testing of S. pneumoniae by disk diffusion, Gunnar Kahlmeter (Växjö, Sweden) What to do when there are no breakpoints, Barbara Holzknecht (Copenhagen, Denmark) Detection of resistance mechanisms, Christian Giske (Stockholm, Sweden) - 04 Apr 2025: EUCAST General Committee Meeting 12 April 15.00 - 16.30
EUCAST Annual General Committee Meeting ESCMID Global, Saturday 12 April, 15.00 – 16.30 am, Meeting Room: Shubert 1+2, Congress centre The General Committee meeting is an open meeting and observers are welcome. AGENDA - Apologies
- Minutes of EUCAST General Committee Meeting, in Barcelona, Spain on 29 April 2024
- EUCAST General Committee members 2024-25
- EUCAST Steering Committee members 2024-25
- Chair’s report (Sören Gatermann)
- EUCAST Subcommittee on Antimycobacterial Susceptibility Testing (Emmanuelle Cambau)
- EUCAST Subcommittee on Antifungal Susceptibility Testing (Maiken Cavling Arendrup)
- EUCAST Veterinary subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (VetCAST) (Peter Damborg)
- EUCAST Subcommittee on MIC distributions and ECOFFs (Gunnar Kahlmeter)
- EUCAST Development Laboratory (Erika Matuschek/Gunnar Kahlmeter)
- Future activities
- Any other business
- Next meeting, at ESCMID Global, 17– 21 April 2026 – Munich, Germany
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All changes to the EUCAST website and to AST recommendations and guidance are listed in a table on the EUCAST website! With kind regards,
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