Antimicrobial sensitivity test results were interpreted according to the interpretative standards of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) [ 12, 13, 17- 19, 21, 22] and the Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLISI) [ 20].
In this sense, all understanding is, according to Gadamer, interpretative, and, insofar as all interpretation involves the exchange between the familiar and the alien, so all interpretation is also translative.
Susceptibility testing was performed using Vitek2 microbroth dilution according to EUCAST interpretative standards [ 23].
According to Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute interpretative criteria, the isolate was resistant to all β-lactams evaluated except amoxicillin/clavulanate, piperacillin/tazobactam, cefoxitin, and carbapenems and was susceptible to chloramphenicol, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, nalidixic acid, ciprofloxacin, and gentamicin.
Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns were determined using broth microdilution at the CDC Streptococcus laboratory (Atlanta, US), and minimum inhibitory concentrations for nonmeningitis breakpoints were used according to standard interpretative criteria [ 19].
After incubation at 37°C for 24 h in anaerobiosis, the diameters of the bacterial free-zone were measured and results expressed in terms of resistance according to the interpretative criteria issued by the CLSI [ 18].
According to the interpretative standards for Burkholderia cepacia, the epidemic strain was resistant to piperacillin (>256 μg/mL), piperacillin-tazobactam (>256 μg/mL), ticarcillin-clavulanic acid (>256 μg/mL), ceftazidime (>256 μg/mL), cefepime (>256 μg/mL), imipenem (>32 μg/mL), meropenem (>32 μg/mL), ciprofloxacin (>32 μg/mL) and colistin (>256 μg/mL).
Each measurement of the inhibition zone diameter was interpreted as 'sensitive'intermediateate' or 'resistant' according to CLSI standard interpretative charts [ 25].
Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the visual analyses of fetal heart rate tracings by observers according to recent National Institute of Child Health and Human Development interpretative guidelines both with each other and with those of a computerized fetal heart rate analysis and alerting system.
