Disc diffusion method

Oxoid has announced that the Oxoid range of products for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) includes all products recommended by EUCAST (the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing) for use in the new, harmonised European disc diffusion method, due for launch in 2010. The Oxoid range includes: All the antimicrobial compounds recommended in the new EUCAST method, as part of the standard Oxoid range of antimicrobial discs; Mueller-Hinton Agar in dehydrated form or a variety of prepared media formats (plain or with defibrinated horse blood and NAD); Ergonomically-designed disc dispensers for the accurate placement of discs onto a variety of agar plate sizes (90, 120 and 140mm); The Oxoid Turbidometer for accurate preparation of 0.5 McFarland inocula;A wide range of QC organisms, including all EUCAST-recommended strains, in convenient Culti-Loop format for
quick, easy and safe preparation of standardised cultures.