Evaluation of the SLOMYCO Sensititre？ panel for testing the antimicrobial susceptibility of Mycobacterium marinum isolates

The agar dilution method is currently considered as the reference method for Mycobacterium marinum drug susceptibility testing (DST). As it is time-consuming, alternative methods, such as the E-test, were evaluated for M.marinum DST, but without success. The SLOMYCO Sensititre？ panel, recently commercialized by TREK Diagnostic Systems (Cleveland, OH), can be used for DST in slow-growing mycobacteria and for antimicrobial agents recommended by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) for M.marinum DST. The main goal of this work was to evaluate the SLOMYCO Sensititre？ panel method for DST in M.marinum isolates from human patients and fish relative to the reference agar dilution method