Variability of Daptomycin MIC Values for Enterococcus faecium When Measured by Reference Broth Microdilution and Gradient Diffusion Tests

Author:

Campeau Shelley A.1,Schuetz Audrey N.2,Kohner Peggy2,Arias Cesar A.345,Hemarajata Peera6ORCID,Bard Jennifer Dien78,Humphries Romney M.1

Affiliation:

1. Accelerate Diagnostics, Tucson, Arizona, USA

2. Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

3. Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics (CARMiG) and Division of Infectious Diseases, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA

4. Center for Infectious Diseases, UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA

5. Molecular Genetics and Antimicrobial Resistance Unit and International Center for Microbial Genomics, Universidad El Bosque, Bogota, Colombia

6. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

7. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

8. Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Abstract

Daptomycin has become a mainstay therapy for the treatment of serious vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium infections. However, concern exists that current testing methods do not accurately predict the clinical success of daptomycin therapy.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology

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