Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections
State of the Art
Increasing Resistance to Vancomycin and Other Glycopeptides in Staphylococcus aureus
Table 1
Examples of vancomycin interpretive criteria used internationally
| Interpretive criteria for vancomycin (µg/mL) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Organizationa |
Susceptible |
Intermediate |
Resistant |
| NCCLS | <4 | 8-16 | >32 |
| CA-SFM | <4 | 8-16 | >32 |
| BSAC | <4 | ------ | >8 |
aNCCLS, National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards; CA-SFM, Comité de l'Antibiogramme de la Société Française Microbiologie; BSAC, British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
