Burnens

André

aburnens@gmail.com

Fankhauser

Hans

Marti

Hanspeter

jacques.schrenzel@hcuge.ch

Dolina

Marisa

Liassine

Nadia

• defining requirements for quality control and external quality assessment for the laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases
• organisation of courses within the framework of the FAMH curriculum in clinical microbiology
• organisation of continuous education courses in clinical microbiology
• teaching clinical microbiology to physicians who perform microbiological analyses in their practice
• collaboration with authorities with regard to the list of analysis and pricing
• Support for the introduction of the European breakpoints of the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibilty Testing (EUCAST) by the Swiss Antibiogramm Committee .

The following documents are showing the main differences between EUCAST and CLSI. They are based on the EUCAST breakpoint tables for interpretation of MCIs and zone diameters (version 1.1., april 2010) and the CLSI performance standards of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (M100-S20, 2010).

• download List EUCAST-CLSI Swiss Antibiogram Committee Version 18 July 2012 (PDF) (german)
  
• download List EUCAST-CLSI Swiss Antibiogram Committee Version 18 July 2012 (PDF) (french)
• download List EUCAST-CLSI Swiss Antibiogram Committee Version 18 July 2012 (PDF) (italian)
  
  
• download Arcticle on EUCAST by Jacques Bille published in "pipette" (french, german by R. Zbinden)
  
  

• 2011 / September / 28 & 29
  • download  Program SGM-SSM  EUCAST courses 2011, Sept 28/29, Bern & Zürich
    
    
• 2011 / January / 26
  Joint meeting with "Club de pathologie infectieuse" (Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases) and the "Réunion informelle SGM/SSM" organized by the SGM/SSM working group " Quality control - Swiss Antibiogram Committee"
  • download J. Bille: What is EUCAST, the tasks, the tools, the methods, the Swiss agenda and more
  • download R. Zbinden: EUCAST in the laboratory: major changes, reporting, and the organization in Switzerland
  • download J. Bille: Staphylococci and glycopeptides
  • download R. Frei: Enterobacteriaceae, nonfermenters and ß-lactams
  • download K. Mühlemann: CLSI and EUCAST recommend to no longer test for ESBL phenotype :
    should we stop to isolate ESBL carriers or reconsider specific hygiene measures for ESBL?  Replace “ESBL”by “MDR-GN”?
  • download G. Zanetti: There is a need for alternatives to carbapenems against ESBL-producing enterobacteriaceae
  • download J. Bille: Enterococci and glycopeptides ... (not presented)
    
    
• 2010 / June / 01
  • download R. Zbinden    Antibiogrammes selon EUCAST ...
  • download A. Kronenberg    anresis.ch ...
  • download M. Hombach       EUCAST vs CLSI ...
    
    
• 2009 / September / 15
  • download R. Zbinden    ampC bei Escherichia coli
  • download A. Gallusser   Carbapenemases in Enterobacteriaceae
  • download N. Liassine    CTX-M une pandémie