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Antifungal Susceptibility Testing: A Primer for Clinicians [PDF]
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2021 Abstract Clinicians treating patients with fungal infections may turn to susceptibility testing to obtain information regarding the activity of different antifungals against a specific fungus that has been cultured. These results may then be used to make decisions regarding a patient’s therapy.
Nathan Wiederhold, Wiederhold Nathan P
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Antifungal Susceptibility Testing: Current Approaches [PDF]
Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2020 Although not as ubiquitous as antibacterial susceptibility testing, antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) is a tool of increasing importance in clinical microbiology laboratories. The goal of AFST is to reliably produce MIC values that may be used to guide patient therapy, inform epidemiological studies, and track rates of antifungal ...
Shawn Lockhart, , Elizabeth L Berkow
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Can We Improve Antifungal Susceptibility Testing? [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021 Systemic antifungal agents are increasingly used for prevention or treatment of invasive fungal infections, whose prognosis remains poor. At the same time, emergence of resistant or even multi-resistant strains is of concern as the antifungal arsenal is ...
Charlotte Durand +8 more
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Susceptibility Testing of Fungi to Antifungal Drugs [PDF]
Journal of Fungi, 2018 Susceptibility testing of fungi against antifungal drugs commonly used for therapy is a key component of the care of patients with invasive fungal infections.
Maurizio Sanguinetti, Brunella Posteraro
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Clinical utility of antifungal susceptibility testing. [PDF]
JAC Antimicrob Resist, 2022 Abstract Invasive fungal diseases cause significant morbidity and mortality, in particular affecting immunocompromised patients. Resistant organisms are of increasing importance, yet there are many notable differences in the ability to both perform and interpret antifungal susceptibility testing compared with bacteria. In this review, we
McCarty TP +3 more
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A Practical Guide to Antifungal Susceptibility Testing. [PDF]
J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc, 2023 We review antifungal susceptibility testing and the development of clinical breakpoints, and detail an approach to using antifungal susceptibility results when breakpoints have not been defined. This information may prove helpful when selecting therapy for invasive fungal infections in children.
Otto WR, Arendrup MC, Fisher BT.
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Antifungal Susceptibility Testing Experience in the Management of Culture-Positive Mucormycosis: Observation from a Large Healthcare System [PDF]
Journal of FungiBackground: Mucormycosis, an invasive fungal infection with high morbidity and mortality rates, requires prompt surgical and antifungal therapies; however, the role of antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) in clinical management of mucormycosis ...
Maryam Naveed +4 more
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New approaches for antifungal susceptibility testing [PDF]
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2017 Invasive fungal diseases, including those caused by (multi)drug-resistant Candida and Aspergillus species, still represent global public health concerns. Information about the antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) of fungal isolates must be quickly produced to help clinicians in administrating appropriate antifungal therapies.
Brunella Posteraro +1 more
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Antifungal Susceptibility Testing - The Times They Are a Changin'. [PDF]
Clin Microbiol Newsl, 2019 Antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) has never been as mainstream as antibacterial susceptibility testing. That may soon change. We are in an unprecedented era of antifungal development which could change the usefulness of and demand for AFST. Here we lay out an argument for increased AFST capacity, discuss new antifungals that are likely to appear
Lockhart SR, Berkow EL.
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Antifungal susceptibility testing [PDF]
Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 1993 Unlike antibacterial susceptibility testing, reliable antifungal susceptibility testing is still largely in its infancy. Many methods have been described, but they produce widely discrepant results unless such factors as pH, inoculum size, medium formulation, incubation time, and incubation temperature are carefully controlled.
J H, Rex +4 more
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