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Indifferent effect of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) combined with fluconazole against multidrug-resistant Candida auris [PDF]

Current Medical Mycology, 2019
Background and Purpose: Emergence and development of antifungal drug resistance in Candida species constitute a serious concern. Candida auris as an emerging multidrug-resistant fungus is the most important public health threat with high levels of ...
Fatemeh Ahangarkani, Sadegh Khodavaisy, Shahram Mahmoudi, Tahereh Shokohi, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai, Hamed Fakhim, Eric Dannaoui, Saharnaz Faraji, Anuradha Chowdhary, Jacques F. Meis, Hamid Badali   +10 more
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Fluconazole Failure in the Treatment of Coccidioidal Meningitis

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Introduction: Coccidioidal meningitis (CM) is the most lethal form of disseminated coccidioidomycosis. Current guidelines recommend fluconazole as initial therapy but there has been a paucity of data regarding failure of fluconazole and optimal ...
Simran Gupta, Neil M. Ampel, Molly Klanderman, Marie F. Grill, Janis E. Blair   +4 more
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Copper Acts Synergistically With Fluconazole in Candida glabrata by Compromising Drug Efflux, Sterol Metabolism, and Zinc Homeostasis

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
The synergistic combinations of drugs are promising strategies to boost the effectiveness of current antifungals and thus prevent the emergence of resistance.
Ana Gaspar-Cordeiro, Catarina Amaral, Vânia Pobre, Wilson Antunes, Wilson Antunes, Ana Petronilho, Paulo Paixão, Paulo Paixão, António P. Matos, Catarina Pimentel   +9 more
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Overexpression of efflux pump transporter genes and mutations in ERG11 pave the way to fluconazole resistance in Candida tropicalis: A study from a North India region

Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, 2020
Introduction: Fluconazole resistance in Candida tropicalis health care–associated infections is increasing. We investigated the role of efflux pump and mutations in ERG11p conferring fluconazole resistance in C. tropicalis. Materials and methods: A total
Nidhi Pandey, Muktanand Tripathi, Munesh K. Gupta, Ragini Tilak   +3 more
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Fluconazole Monotherapy Is a Suboptimal Option for Initial Treatment of Cryptococcal Meningitis Because of Emergence of Resistance. [PDF]

, 2019
Cryptococcal meningitis is a lethal disease with few therapeutic options. Induction therapy with fluconazole has been consistently demonstrated to be associated with suboptimal microbiological and clinical outcomes. Exposure to fluconazole causes dynamic
Aller, Altamirano, Arechavala, Bicanic, Bicanic, Boeva, Chang, Chen, Dannaoui, DePristo, Drusano, Harrison, Li, Longley, Loyse, Martin, Mayanja-Kizza, McKenna, Molloy, Mondon, Neely, Nixon, Nussbaum, Saag, Sionov, Sionov, Stone, Stott, Stott, Sudan, Wiederhold, Witt   +31 more
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CAQ Corner: Basic concepts of transplant immunology

, 2022
Liver Transplantation, EarlyView.
Amanda Cheung, Josh Levitsky
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MDR1 overexpression combined with ERG11 mutations induce high-level fluconazole resistance in Candida tropicalis clinical isolates

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Marked increases in fluconazole resistance in Candida tropicalis have been recently reported. In this study, the molecular mechanisms behind fluconazole resistance were investigated. Methods Twenty-two C.
Longyang Jin, Zhuorui Cao, Qi Wang, Yichen Wang, Xiaojuan Wang, Hongbin Chen, Hui Wang   +6 more
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Fluconazole Resistance and Virulence in In Vitro Induced-Fluconazole Resistant Strains and in Clinical Fluconazole Resistant Strain of Cryptococcus deuterogattii

Pathogens, 2023
Neuromeningeal cryptococcosis is a life-threatening infection of the central nervous system, caused by encapsulated yeast belonging to the Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii species complexes. Recent data showed that virulence and antifungal
Sébastien Bertout, Laetitia Laroche, Frédéric Roger, Donika Krasteva, Pascal Drakulovski, Virginie Bellet   +5 more
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CAQ Corner: Immune‐mediated complications

, 2022
Liver Transplantation, EarlyView.
Mary Thomson, John R. Lake
wiley   +1 more source

Ibuprofen-Mediated Reversal of Fluconazole Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Candida [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Introduction: In view of the increasing prevalence of invasive Candidiasis in today’s health-care scenario and the emergence of fluconazole resistance among clinical isolates of Candida, we sought to determine if Ibuprofen could elicit a reversal of ...
Monika Sharma, Debasis Biswas, Aarti Kotwal, Bhaskar Thakuria, Barnali Kakati, Bhupendra Singh Chauhan, Abhishek Patras   +6 more
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