Members of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) Subcommittee on Veterinary Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing - Aquaculture Working Group (VAST-AWG) are pleased to announce the publication of a new NCCLS Report in May 2003 entitled, Methods for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Testing of Bacteria Isolated from Aquatic Animals; A Report.  This document provides the most up-to-date techniques for disk diffusion susceptibility testing of aquatic isolates, as well as quality control ranges used for monitoring the performance of study conditions and

experimental deviations.  The report can be purchased directly from the NCCLS website at http://subservice.nccls.org/edds/webstore.htm, for a cost of $35 by NCCLS members and $65 for non-members.

 

This is a major step forward for aquatic animal diagnostics and for the monitoring of antimicrobial susceptibilities of microorganisms in the aquatic environment. 

 

Miller RA, Walker RD, Baya A,  Clemens K, Coles M, Hawke JP, Henricson BE, Hsu HM, Mathers JJ, Oaks JL, Papapetropoulou M, Reimschuessel R.

 

 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Aquatic Bacteria: Quality Control Disk Diffusion Ranges for Escherichia coli ATCC 25922 and Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida ATCC 33658 at 22°C and 28°C. 

 

Journal of Clinical Microbiology.  41(9):4318-4323.  2003