[The antimicrobial susceptibility test of Helicobacter pylori].
Now that treatment of H. pylori associated disease is becoming common in Japan, drug resistant--H. pylori has emerged as a problem to be solved. There is no standard method of H. pylori drug susceptibility test in Japan yet. There are several methods available: Disk test, E-test, microplate method and agar plate dilution method. The E-test is being the standard method in European countries and USA. However the microplate method has been reported as a same accuracy as the agar dilution method, and thought as being a new standard method in Japan. In 2000, The Japanese Society of Chemotherapy proposed that drug susceptibility test be standardized and listed the break point of MIC of amoxicillin(AMPC) and clarithromycin(CAM).
Takahashi
Shin'ichi
S
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine.
Tokunaga
Kengo
K
Kai
Akemi
A
Shingaki
Masao
M
Itoh
Takeshi
T
D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D016480:Helicobacter pylori / Q000187:drug effects*; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests / Q000379:methods*