Veterinary Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (VetCAST)
VetCAST is a EUCAST subcommittee formed in 2015. It deals with all aspects of antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacterial pathogens of animal origin and animal bacteria with zoonotic potential.
The subcommittee will operate as a standing subcommittee of EUCAST and within the format and structure of EUCAST.
- VetCAST vision, strategy, remits, Steering Committee and committee members (30 Dec, 2019)
(previous version of the document from April 2018). - VetCAST Guidance on how to collect and handle PK data (April 2018)
- VetCAST rationale documents (florfenicol v 1.0, 2019)
- VetCAST breakpoint tables (under development)
Publications
- P-L Toutain et al.
En Route towards European Clinical Breakpoints for Veterinary Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: A Position Paper Explaining the VetCAST Approach. Frontiers in Microbiology, December 2017. - MD Vegas Cómitre et al.
opulation pharmacokinetics of intravenous amoxicillin combined with clavulanic acid in healthy and critically ill dogs. Front Vet Sci 2021. - E. Lallemande et al.
Pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic cutoff values for benzylpenicillin in horses to support the establishment of clinical breakpoints for benzylpenicillin antimicrobial susceptibility testing in horses. Front. Microbiol., 25 October 2023. Volume 14 - 2023 | doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1282949
