Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16081926›Full record

ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2005

International and multicenter comparison of EUCAST and CLSI M27-A2 broth microdilution methods for testing susceptibilities of Candida spp. to fluconazole, itraconazole, posaconazole, and voriconazole.

A Espinel-Ingroff, F Barchiesi, M Cuenca-Estrella, M A Pfaller, M Rinaldi, J L Rodriguez-Tudela, P E Verweij

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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50citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 141 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Candidiasis: 2016 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2016
    Guideline
  2. Clinical practice guidelines for the management of candidiasis: 2009 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2009
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

A Espinel-IngroffVCU Medical Center, Medical Mycology Research Laboratory, 1101 E. Marshall St., Sanger Hall Room 7049, P.O. Box 980049, Richmond, VA 23298-0049, USA. avingrof@hsc.vcu.edu
F Barchiesi
M Cuenca-Estrella
M A Pfaller
M Rinaldi
J L Rodriguez-Tudela
P E Verweij
Instituto de Salud Carlos III · ESOspedali Riuniti di Ancona · ITThe University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · USUniversity of Iowa · USVirginia Commonwealth University Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare MICs of fluconazole, itraconazole, posaconazole, and voriconazole obtained by the European Committee on Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) and CLSI (formerly NCCLS) methods in each of six centers for 15 Candida albicans (5 fluconazole-resistant and 4 susceptible-dose-dependent [S-DD] isolates), 10 C. dubliniensis, 7 C. glabrata (2 fluconazole-resistant isolates), 5 C. guilliermondii (2 fluconazole-resistant isolates), 10 C. krusei, 9 C. lusitaniae, 10 C. parapsilosis, and 5 C. tropicalis (1 fluconazole-resistant isolate) isolates. CLSI MICs were obtained visually at 24 and 48 h and spectrophotometric EUCAST MICs at 24 h. The agreement (within a 3-dilution range) between the methods was species, drug, and incubation time dependent and due to lower EUCAST than CLSI MICs: overall, 94 to 95% with fluconazole and voriconazole and 90 to 91% with posaconazole and itraconazole when EUCAST MICs were compared against 24-h CLSI results. The agreement was lower (85 to 94%) against 48-h CLSI endpoints. The overall interlaboratory reproducibility by each method was > or =92%. When the comparison was based on CLSI breakpoint categorization, the agreement was 68 to 76% for three of the four species that included fluconazole-resistant and S-DD isolates; 9% very major discrepancies (< or =8 microg/ml versus > or =64 microg/ml) were observed among fluconazole-resistant isolates and 50% with voriconazole (< or =1 microg/ml versus > or =4 microg/ml). Similar results were observed with itraconazole for seven of the eight species evaluated (28 to 77% categorical agreement). Posaconazole EUCAST MICs were also substantially lower than CLSI MIC modes (0.008 to 1 microg/ml versus 1 to > or =8 microg/ml) for some of these isolates. Therefore, the CLSI breakpoints should not be used to interpret EUCAST MIC data.

Indexed as

Antifungal AgentsCandidaFluconazoleItraconazoleMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPyrimidinesReproducibility of ResultsTriazolesVoriconazoleAntifungal AgentsFluconazoleItraconazoleposaconazolePyrimidinesTriazolesVoriconazole

Identifiers

PMID16081926
PMCPMC1233914
OpenAlexW2170975984

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