Upcoming EURGen-Net phenotypic EQA and genomic PT 2025
Members of EURGen-Net recently received an invitation to participate in the phenotypic EQA and genomic PT 2025. The registration is open until 10 July 2025. The test materials, represented by four strains of Enterobacterales, Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and, exceptionally upon request, WGS data, will be shipped in October 2025. The deadlines for submission of results are 8 November 2025 for the phenotypic EQA and 29 November 2025 for the genomic PT.
The EURGen-Net phenotypic EQA and genomic PT aims to assess the accuracy and reliability, at the participating laboratories, for;
- phenotypic characterisation of CRE, CRAb and CRPa including species identification and interpretation of AST results for a panel of clinically relevant antimicrobials;
- genomic characterisation of CRE, CRAb and/or CRPa, including whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and bioinformatics analyses of WGS data to determine specific genomic traits such as MLST