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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2004

Evaluation of the NCCLS M44-P disk diffusion method for determining susceptibilities of 276 clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans to fluconazole.

M A Pfaller, S A Messer, L Boyken, C Rice, S Tendolkar, R J Hollis, D J Diekema

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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7 authors.

M A PfallerDepartment of Pathology, Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. michael-pfaller@uiowa.edu
S A Messer
L Boyken
C Rice
S Tendolkar
R J Hollis
D J Diekema

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We evaluated the NCCLS M44-P fluconazole disk diffusion method in comparison with the NCCLS M27-A2 broth microdilution method for determining the susceptibility of 276 isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans. Disk diffusion testing was performed using Mueller-Hinton agar supplemented with 2% glucose and 0.5 microg of methylene blue/ml. Among the 276 isolates, 259 (93.8%) were susceptible, 16 (5.8%) were susceptible--dose dependent, and 1 (0.4%) was resistant to fluconazole as determined by the NCCLS broth microdilution method. The overall categorical agreement between the two methods was 86%, with 0% very major errors, 2% major errors, and 12% minor errors. The disk diffusion method using Mueller-Hinton agar supplemented with glucose and methylene blue appears to be a useful approach for determining the fluconazole susceptibility of C. neoformans.

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Antifungal AgentsCryptococcus neoformansDiffusionFluconazoleMicrobial Sensitivity TestsQuality ControlAntifungal AgentsFluconazole

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PMID14715784
PMCPMC321716

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