a) General susceptibility (antibiotic spectrum) tests
- Gram-positive bacteria (Bacillus subtilis, Mammaliicoccus lentus)
- Gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas fluorescens)
- Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)
b) Specific panel of assays
Human-associated pathogenic bacteria and fungi
ESKAPE panel pathogens
- Enterococcus faecium
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Acinetobacter baumannii
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Enterobacter species (Escherichia coli)
Skin associated bacteria and fungi
- Staphylococcus epidermidis
- Cutibacterium acnes (Acne)
- Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA (Inflammation, septicaemia)
- Brevibacterium epidermidis
- Dermabacter hominis
- Candida albicans
- Trichophyton rubrum, T. mentagrophytes, Microsporum canis (Athlete’s foot)
Additional human pathogens
- Enterococcus faecalis (GI and nosocomial infections, septicaemia)
- Enterococcus casseliflavus (bloodstream infection)
- Enterococcus hirae (urinary tract infection)
- Vibrio cholerae (Cholera disease)
- Leifsonia aquatic (septicemia)
- Shewanella algae (pneumonia)
- Vibrio alginolyticus (eye, ear and wound infection)
- Vibrio parahaemolyticus (food poisoning)
- Candida glabrata and C. albicans (Skin diseases, septicaemia, wound infections)
- Candida auris (infection of bloodstream and central nervous system)
- Cryptococcus neoformans (Cryptococcosis, opportunistic infection in AIDS)
Phytopathogenic panel (plant/crop diseases)
- Xanthomonas campestris (Various plant diseases, including black rot disease)
- Pseudomonas syringae (Leaf spot diseases)
- Erwinia amylovora (Fire blight)
- Ralstonia solanacearum (Wilt in e.g. potato)
- Zymoseptoria tritici (Septoria leaf blotch in wheat)
- Phytophthora infestans (Potato blight)
- Botrytis cinerea (Botrytis bunch rot, grey mould)
- Pyricularia oryzae (rice blast)
- Verticillium longisporum (wilt of rape)
Marine environmental panel
- Lactococcus garvieae
- Algicola bacteriolytica (Red spot disease of Saccharina japonica),
- Pseudoalteromonas elyakovii (Causing spots on brown algae)
- Vibrio alginolyticus
- Vibrio anguillarum (Fish and invertebrate pathogen)
- Vibrio coralliilyticus (tissue lysis at corals)
- Aliivibrio fischeri (Quorum sensing potential)
- Vibrio harveyi
- Vibrio ichthyoenteri
- Vibrio parahaemolyticus
- Vibrio splendidus
- Acremonium fuci
- Corollospora marina
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