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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2007

Comparison between disk diffusion and microdilution methods for determining susceptibility of clinical fungal isolates to caspofungin.

Maria Eleonora Milici, Carmelo Massimo Maida, Elisabetta Spreghini, Barbara Ravazzolo, Salvatore Oliveri, Giorgio Scalise, Francesco Barchiesi

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Maria Eleonora MiliciDipartimento di Igiene e Microbioogia D'Alessandro, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Carmelo Massimo Maida
Elisabetta Spreghini
Barbara Ravazzolo
Salvatore Oliveri
Giorgio Scalise
Francesco Barchiesi

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We compared the caspofungin (CAS) susceptibility testing results generated by the disk diffusion (DD) assay with the results of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) broth microdilution (BD) reference method for 106 yeast isolates. The isolates represented 11 different fungal species, including Candida albicans (n = 50), C. parapsilosis (n = 10), C. glabrata (n = 10), C. tropicalis (n = 10), C. guillermondii (n = 6), C. rugosa (n = 5), C. krusei (n = 5), C. kefyr (n = 2), C. pelliculosa (n = 2), Saccharomyces cerevisiae (n = 3), and Geotrichum candidum (n = 3). The DD assay was performed in supplemented Mueller-Hinton agar with CAS, which was tested at concentrations of 2, 10, and 25 mug per disk. MICs and inhibition zone diameters were evaluated at 24 and 48 h. In general, the results obtained by the DD assay correlated well with those obtained by the BD method. In particular, a significant correlation between methods was observed when CAS was used at concentration of 2 mug/disk at a reading time of either 24 or 48 h.

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Antifungal AgentsCandida albicansCaspofunginDiffusionEchinocandinsFungiLipopeptidesMicrobial Sensitivity TestsAntifungal AgentsCaspofunginEchinocandinsLipopeptides

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PMID17728477
PMCPMC2168513

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