Echinocandin susceptibility testing of Candida isolates collected during a 1-year period in Sweden.

ABSTRACT: The susceptibilities of Candida isolates to the echinocandins anidulafungin, caspofungin, and micafungin were determined by using the recently revised CLSI breakpoints and Etest on 238 clinical bloodstream Candida isolates collected between September 2005 and August 2006. The isolates represent approximately 95% of all non-albicans Candida bloodstream infections and one-third of Candida albicans bloodstream infections during this 1-year period in Sweden. The collection included 81 C. albicans, 81 C. glabrata, 36 C. parapsilosis, 14 C. dubliniensis, 8 C. tropicalis, 8 C. lusitaniae, 5 C. krusei, 2 C. guilliermondii and 2 C. inconspicua isolates as well as 1 C. pelliculosa isolate. The MICs were largely consistent with the global epidemiology of bloodstream Candida isolates. All C. albicans

SUBMITTER: Axner-Elings M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3147820 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature