Standards for MIC testing that apply to the majority of bacterial pathogens should also be enforced for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Kalmar County Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden; Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Division of Medical Microbiology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
• ² EUCAST Development Laboratory, Växjö, Sweden.
• ³ Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
• ⁴ School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.
• ⁵ Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Pharmacy and Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ⁶ Korean Institute of Tuberculosis, Cheongju, Republic of Korea.
• ⁷ Centenary Institute and Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; NSW Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research-Pathology West, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology-Public Health, Westmead Hospital, Western Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ⁸ National and Supranational Reference Centre for Mycobacteria, Research Centre Borstel, Borstel, Germany.
• ⁹ Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland.
• ¹⁰ Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: cuk21@cam.ac.uk.