Videos and Online seminars from EUCAST
Online seminars
- future seminars and recordings of previous seminars
Online seminars and presentations.
Instruction videos
In collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), EUCAST publishes instruction videos on how to perform antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) using EUCAST recommended methods and interpretation.
The videos are published on Youtube™ and have an English speaker voice and English subtitles. Since not all countries may access Youtube™ videos in some languages are made available directly on the EUCAST web page.
Information added 2014-01-01: In some of the informational videos colleagues are advised to categorise the susceptibility of bacteria without breakpoints using the PK/PD breakpoints (previously available from the EUCAST breakpoint tables). This is no longer acceptable since the current opinion is that the PK/PD cut-off values may vary between species and EUCAST has therefore removed the PK/PD tab from the breakpoint table 14.0 (1 January, 2024). Instead we refer the EUCAST user to the guidance document “When there are no breakpoints” among the guidance documents.
The videos cover the following topics:
- Preparation of inoculum (English).
- Inoculation of agar plates for disk diffusion (English).
- Application of antibiotic disks and incubation of plates (English).
- Reading of inhibition zone diameters (English).
- Guidance on the use of the breakpoint table (English). See comment above added 2024.
- Storage and handling of media and disks (English) - subtitles in other languages pending.
- Quality control of AST in clinical microbiology (English) - subtitles in other languages pending.
Instruction videos on EUCAST susceptibility testing with subtitles in other languages than English:
Instruction videos - English subtitles.
- Alternative access to instruction videos in English with English subtitles.
Instruction videos - German subtitles.
Instruction videos - Russian subtitles.
Instruction videos - Turkish subtitles.
Instruction videos - French subtitles.
Instruction videos - Spanish subtitles.
Instruction videos - Portuguese subtitles.
Instruction videos - Arabic subtitles.
Instruction videos - Czech subtitles.
Instruction videos - Chinese subtitles.
- Alternative access to instruction videos in english with chinese subtitles.
Instruction videos - Romanian subtitles.
Acknowledgements
The instruction videos from EUCAST on how to perform antimicrobial susceptibility disk diffusion testing was produced by a project team from EUCAST and WHO:
Erika Matuschek, Jenny Åhman and Gunnar Kahlmeter, EUCAST Development Laboratory
Christopher Oxenford, Danilo Lo Fo Wong and Nienke van de Sande, WHO
Jonas Ljungdahl, photographer and editor, Växjö, Sweden.
The following are acknowledged for translations of subtitles into languages other than English:
German
Sören Gatermann, Michael Kresken and Axel Hamprecht, all German NAC.
Russian
Roman Kozlov, Marina Sukhorukova, Mikhail Edelstein, all Institute of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (IAC), Smolensk State Medical University (SSMU).
Turkish
ADTS working Group (Turkish NAC for EUCAST).
French
Luc Dubreuil, Université de Lille, France.
Spanish
Luis Martinez-Martinez and Antonio Oliver, both Spanish Committee of the Antibiogram (Coesant).
Portuguese/Brazilian
Ana Gales and Jorge Sampaio, Brazilian Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (BrCAST).
Arabic
Magda Rakha, Consultant Public Health laboratories and Humayun Asghar, WHO EMRO.
Czech
Pavla Urbaskova, Helena Zemlickova and Vladislav Jakubu, all members of the Czech NAC.
Chinese
Yu Qing Liiu, member of the Chinese NAC, and Hong Yin, clinical microbiology, Falun, Sweden.
Romanian
Olga Burduniuc (Chair of Moldovan NAC)
