title: Evaluation of Etest for testing antimicrobial susceptibilities of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates with different growth media.
abstract: The MICs for 101 isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae obtained by Etest (AB-Biodisk, Solna, Sweden) and the agar dilution method on GC medium base supplemented with 1% Kellog's defined supplement (GCMB) were compared. The overall percent agreement (within 1 log2 dilution) between methods was greater than 97.9. The Pearson's correlation coefficients for penicillin, tetracycline, erythromycin, and ceftriaxone for the two methods were 0.98, 0.97, 0.93, and 0.93 (P = 0.001), respectively, for comparisons on GCMB. The overall percent agreement was lower when hemoglobin-supplemented GCMB was used. Etest is an attractive alternative to the agar dilution method for gonococcal antimicrobial susceptibility testing and should be further analyzed in multicenter studies.
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory for Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Yeung
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Dillon
mesh_terms: D003470:Culture Media; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests / Q000379:methods*; D009344:Neisseria gonorrhoeae / Q000187:drug effects*; D012044:Regression Analysis
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media