“…Despite these limitations, the successful application of the assay has been documented for a wide array of bacterial species [ Acinetobacter sp. (Kempf et al, 2012; Alvarez-Buylla et al, 2013; Carvalhaes et al, 2013); Bacteroides (Johansson et al, 2014b); Pseudomonas (Carvalhaes et al, 2013; Lee et al, 2013); and Enterobacteriaceae (Sparbier et al, 2012; Jung et al, 2014b; Oviaño et al, 2016a; Calderaro et al, 2017; Choquet et al, 2018]; with different antibiotics as substrate [ampicillin (Jung et al, 2014b); cefotaxime and ceftazidime (Oviaño et al, 2014, 2017a; Li et al, 2017); ertapenem (Burckhardt and Zimmermann, 2011; Carvalhaes et al, 2013; Hoyos-Mallecot et al, 2014; Johansson et al, 2014a); imipenem (Knox et al, 2014; Chong et al, 2015; Lasserre et al, 2015; Ghebremedhin et al, 2016); meropenem (Hrabák et al, 2011; Wang et al, 2013a; Kawamoto et al, 2018)]; with inoculae collected from positive blood-cultures (Carvalhaes et al, 2014; Johansson et al, 2014b; Jung et al, 2014b; Oviaño et al, 2014) or urine samples (Oviaño et al, 2017b) and with isolates possessing different lactamases.…”