Characterization of Virulence Factors, Cellular Stress Response, and Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of <i>Trichosporon</i> spp. Isolated from Northeast Brazilian Patients. [PDF]
de Souza Jimenez MG +7 more
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Genotyping Analysis of Cryptococcus deuterogattii and Correlation with Virulence Factors and Antifungal Susceptibility by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and the European Committee on Antifungal Susceptibility Testing Methods. [PDF]
Andrade-Silva LE +9 more
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Impact of the Disk Diffusion Test on Fluconazole De-Escalation in Patients with Candidemia
Disk diffusion (DD) is a simple antifungal susceptibility method for Candida. This study examined the impact of fluconazole DD testing on antifungal de-escalation.
Suchavadee Tantasuwan +3 more
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Assessment of the In Vitro and In Vivo Antifungal Activity of NSC319726 against Candida auris
Candida auris is an emerging yeast pathogen of candidemia with the ability to develop resistance to all current antifungal drug classes. Novel antifungal therapies against C. auris are warranted. NSC319726 is a thiosemicarbazone with an inhibitory effect
Jizhou Li +4 more
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Voriconazole treatment of Candida tropicalis meningitis: persistence of (1,3)-b-D-glucan in the cerebrospinal fluid is a marker of clinical and microbiological failure [PDF]
Introduction: Infections are still the most common complications of cerebral shunt procedures. Even though fungal etiologies are considered to be rare, they are associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
Brunetti, Grazia +7 more
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Antifungal susceptibility testing of yeasts and the development of interpretive breakpoints are nowadays very important topics both for the increasing incidence of invasive mycoses and number of available antifungal drugs and for the appearance of ...
Esther Manso +6 more
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Dermatophytosis is a superficial fungal infection of keratinized tissue caused by dermatophytes. The dermatophytes are included in three fungal genera: Epidermophyton, Microsporum, and Trichophyton.
Vaibhavi Vijay Nanoty +5 more
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Set of Classical PCRs for Detection of Mutations in Candida glabrata FKS Genes Linked with Echinocandin Resistance [PDF]
Clinical echinocandin resistance among Candida glabrata strains is increasing, especially in the United States. Antifungal susceptibility testing is considered mandatory to guide therapeutic decisions.
Afeltra, Javier +7 more
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Single dose pharmacodynamics of amphotericin B against Aspergillus species in an in vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model [PDF]
Conventional MIC testing of amphotericin B results in narrow MIC ranges challenging the detection of resistant strains. In order to discern amphotericin B pharmacodynamics, the in vitro activity of amphotericin B was studied against Aspergillus isolates ...
Al-Saigh, Rafal +5 more
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Fungal Profile and Its Characteristics in Patients Section of Otomycosis-A Prospective Study [PDF]
Introduction: Fungal ear infection is one of the most common infections, which is termed as otomycosis. Common causative agents are Aspergillus and Candida species.
Sushil Kumar Aggarwal, Kirti Jaiswal
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