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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2004

In vitro activity of voriconazole and other antifungal agents against clinical isolates of Candida glabrata and Candida krusei.

M Drago, M M Scaltrito, G Morace, GISIA-2 Group

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Article in European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Guideline
  2. Characterization and susceptibility of non-albicansFrontiers in public health · 2023
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  3. LATE ONSETAnnals of Ibadan postgraduate medicine · 2022
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  6. The Candida pathogenic species complex.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2014
    Review
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  11. Voriconazole in the management of nosocomial invasive fungal infections.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2006
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

M DragoIstituto di Microbiologia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via C. Pascal 36, 20133 Milan, Italy.
M M Scaltrito
G Morace
GISIA-2 Group
University of Milan · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The antifungal susceptibility of 309 Candida glabrata and 63 Candida krusei clinical isolates was tested via the Sensititre YeastOne-3 system (Trek Diagnostic Systems, East Grinstead, UK) to compare the in vitro activity of voriconazole with that of five other antifungal agents (amphotericin B, fluconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole, and flucytosine). Voriconazole was highly active (MIC90, 0.5 microg/ml) against isolates of both species, including those for which the MICs of itraconazole and fluconazole were high (MIC90s of itraconazole, 2 microg/ml for C. glabrata and 0.5 microg/ml for C. krusei; MIC90s of fluconazole, 32 microg/ml for C. glabrata and 64 microg/ml for C. krusei). Ketoconazole MIC90 values for both species were identical to those of voriconazole. The MIC90 of amphotericin B was similar for both species (0.125 microg/ml for C. glabrata and 0.25 microg/ml for C. krusei). As expected, flucytosine was only moderately active against C. krusei isolates (MIC90, 16 microg/ml) but was highly active against C. glabrata isolates (MIC90, 0.03 microg/ml). Potential cross-resistance within the azole class was noted for some strains of C. glabrata (5.5%) that presented high MIC values for all the azoles tested. In order to consider voriconazole a viable alternative to other triazoles for the treatment of infections caused by Candida species, susceptibility testing of all clinically significant isolates of C. glabrata and C. krusei is recommended because of the potential for azole cross-resistance. The Sensititre YeastOne-3 seems to be a suitable commercial tool for this purpose.

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, FungalAntifungal AgentsCandidaCandida glabrataCandidiasisHumansIn Vitro TechniquesItalyMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPyrimidinesSampling StudiesSensitivity and SpecificityTriazolesVoriconazoleAntifungal AgentsPyrimidinesTriazolesVoriconazole

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PMID15258831
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