Ten years of external quality assessment (EQA) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial susceptibility testing in Europe elucidate high reliability of data.
Michelle Jayne ColeNerteley QuayeSusanne JacobssonMichaela DayElizabeth FaganCatherine IsonRachel PittShila SeatonNeil WoodfordAngelika StarySonja PleiningerTania CrucittiBlaženka HunjakPanayiota MaikantiSteen HoffmannJelena ViktorovaSusanne BuderPeter KohlEva TzelepiEirini SiatravaniEszter BallaGuðrún Svanborg HauksdóttirLisa RosePaola StefanelliAnna CarannanteGatis PakarnaFrancesca MifsudRosann Zammit CassarIneke LindeThea BergheimMartin SteinbakkBeata Mlynarczyk-BonikowskaMaria-José BorregoJill ShepherdPeter PavlikSamo JevericaJulio VazquezRaquel AbadSabrina WeissGianfranco SpiteriMagnus UnemoPublished in: BMC infectious diseases (2019)
The high level of comparability of results in this EQA scheme indicates that high quality data are produced by the Euro-GASP participants and gives confidence in susceptibility and resistance data generated by laboratories performing decentralised testing.
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