INTRODUCTION: Antifungal susceptibility testing assists in finding the appropriate treatment for fungal infections, which are increasingly common. However, such testing is not very widespread. There are several existing methods, and the correlation between such methods was evaluated in this study. M...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:627382d69d58471ca4822d8275b67bd2 2023-05-15T14:59:39+02:00 Everardo Albuquerque Menezes Antônio Alexandre de Vasconcelos Júnior Maria Rozzelê Ferreira Ângelo Maria da Conceição dos Santos Oliveira Cunha Francisco Afrânio Cunha 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/627382d69d58471ca4822d8275b67bd2 EN eng Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822013000100106 https://doaj.org/toc/0037-8682 https://doaj.org/toc/1678-9849 0037-8682 1678-9849 https://doaj.org/article/627382d69d58471ca4822d8275b67bd2 Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 46, Iss 1, Pp 106-107 (2013) Disk diffusion Antifungal susceptibility Fluconazole Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article 2013 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-30T23:18:21Z INTRODUCTION: Antifungal susceptibility testing assists in finding the appropriate treatment for fungal infections, which are increasingly common. However, such testing is not very widespread. There are several existing methods, and the correlation between such methods was evaluated in this study. METHODS: The susceptibility to fluconazole of 35 strains of Candida sp. isolated from blood cultures was evaluated by the following methods: microdilution, Etest, and disk diffusion. RESULTS: The correlation between the methods was around 90%. CONCLUSIONS: The disk diffusion test exhibited a good correlation and can be used in laboratory routines to detect strains of Candida sp. that are resistant to fluconazole. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic |
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INTRODUCTION: Antifungal susceptibility testing assists in finding the appropriate treatment for fungal infections, which are increasingly common. However, such testing is not very widespread. There are several existing methods, and the correlation between such methods was evaluated in this study. METHODS: The susceptibility to fluconazole of 35 strains of Candida sp. isolated from blood cultures was evaluated by the following methods: microdilution, Etest, and disk diffusion. RESULTS: The correlation between the methods was around 90%. CONCLUSIONS: The disk diffusion test exhibited a good correlation and can be used in laboratory routines to detect strains of Candida sp. that are resistant to fluconazole. |
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