Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (9): 47-58.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2022-0695

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Overview of CLSI,EUCAST,and Susceptibility Breakpoints in China

RUAN Zi-han1,2(), HUANG An-xiong1,2, WANG Xiu-juan1,2, HUANG Ling-li1,2, HAO Hai-hong1,2,3,4()   

  1. 1. National Reference Laboratory of Veterinary Drug Residues,Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan 430070
    2. MOA Laboratory for Risk Assessment of Quality and Safety of Livestock and Poultry Products,Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan 430070
    3. Huazhong Agricultural University,Shenzhen Institute of Nutrition and Health,Shenzhen 518000
    4. Shenzhen Branch,Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture,Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture,Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Shenzhen 518000
  • Received:2022-06-06 Online:2022-09-26 Published:2022-10-11
  • Contact: HAO Hai-hong E-mail:ruanzh1998@163.com;haohaihong@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Abstract:

The significance of establishing susceptibility breakpoints is to interpret the results of drug susceptibility tests,and to select appropriate drugs and optimal dosing regimens in treating animals,which is an important means to control drug resistance. At present,institutions to establish susceptibility breakpoints have been established in many developed countries,among which the most influential and authoritative institutions are the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute(CLSI)and the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing(EUCAST). The research on drug resistance monitoring in China started relatively late,and mainly drew on the susceptibility breakpoints established by the CLSI. In 2017,with the support of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and EUCAST,the Chinese Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing was established in China. Leading by the China Institute of Veterinary Drug Control(IVDC)in recent years,researchers from various research institutions have also made breakthroughs in susceptibility breakpoints and drug resistance monitoring,laying a solid foundation for controlling the development of antimicrobial resistance in China. This article first introduced the definition and significance of susceptibility breakpoints to provide a basic understanding for microbiological researchers. Then,it reviewed the basic situation of the CLSI and the EUCAST,and compared the differences in the establishment of susceptibility breakpoints between the two. Finally,this article analyzed and summarized the results of China's veterinary antimicrobial resistance monitoring and susceptibility breakpoints. In general,China is in a state of steady growth in the control of veterinary antimicrobial resistance,and many established standards for the determination of resistance are of great significance for controlling the development of resistance. However,there are still many veterinary antibiotics lacking corresponding susceptibility breakpoints,which requires more researchers to find more rapid,simple and accurate methods in the future,and fill and update the susceptibility breakpoints of veterinary antibiotics.

Key words: veterinary antimicrobials, CLSI, EUCAST, breakpoint, difference