Division Antimicrobial resistance

The results of antimicrobial susceptibility tests must be reported according to the methods and criteria agreed between ECDC and Member States as specified by ECDC's European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net)^f1, and in particular:

• for Staphylococcus aureus: susceptibility to meticillin and other anti-staphylococcal beta-lactams;

• for Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis: susceptibility to glycopeptides;

• for Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli: susceptibility to carbapenems, and susceptibility to colistin in carbapenem-resistant isolates;

• for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter species: susceptibility to carbapenems.