Expected phenotypes and expert rules are important complements to antimicrobial susceptibility testing

Affiliations

• ¹ Abteilung für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany. Electronic address: soeren.gatermann@rub.de.
• ² Centre for Antimicrobial Pharmacodynamics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
• ³ Faculté de Pharmacie, Lille cedex, France.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical Microbiology L2:02, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, and Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁵ Klinisk Mikrobiologi, Växjö, Sweden.
• ⁶ Institut des Agents Infectieux, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Equipe Pathogénie des Staphylocoques, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, INSERM U1111, CNRS, UMR 5308, ENS de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France.
• ⁷ Haukeland University Hospital, Department of Microbiology, Bergen, Norway.
• ⁸ Department of Medical Microbiology, Southmead Hospital, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, United Kingdom.
• ⁹ Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Attikon University General Hospital, Haidari, Athens, Greece.
• ¹⁰ Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence and Clinical Microbiology and Virology Unit, Florence Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
• ¹¹ Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
• ¹² Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal and Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investiagación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain.