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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2008

In vitro survey of triazole cross-resistance among more than 700 clinical isolates of Aspergillus species.

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, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 120 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 1 institution in 1 country.

M A PfallerDepartments 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
University of Iowa · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Few data exist to describe in vitro patterns of cross-resistance among large collections of clinical Aspergillus isolates, including those of species other than Aspergillus fumigatus. We examined 771 Aspergillus spp. clinical isolates collected from 2000 to 2006 as part of a global antifungal surveillance program (553 A. fumigatus, 76 A. flavus, 59 A. niger, 35 A. terreus, and 24 A. versicolor isolates and 24 isolates of other Aspergillus species). Antifungal susceptibility testing was performed by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) M38-A broth dilution method with itraconazole (ITR), posaconazole (POS), ravuconazole (RAV), and voriconazole (VOR). We examined the potential for cross-resistance by using measures of correlation overall and by species. For most Aspergillus isolates (from 88% of isolates for ITR to 98% of isolates for VOR and POS), MICs of each triazole were < or = 1 microg/ml. When all 771 isolates were examined, there were statistically significant correlations for all six triazole-triazole pairs. For A. fumigatus, the strongest correlations seen were those between VOR and RAV MICs (r = 0.7) and ITR and POS MICs (r = 0.4). Similarly, for A. flavus, only VOR and RAV MICs and ITR and POS MICs demonstrated statistically significant positive correlations. We have demonstrated correlations among triazole MICs for Aspergillus, which for the most common species (A. fumigatus and A. flavus) were strongest between VOR and RAV MICs and ITR and POS MICs. However, Aspergillus species for which MICs of VOR or POS were >2 microg/ml remain extremely rare (<1% of isolates).

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, FungalAntifungal AgentsAspergillosisAspergillusHumansMicrobial Sensitivity TestsStatistics as TopicTriazolesAntifungal AgentsTriazoles

Identifiers

PMID18562581
PMCPMC2519461
OpenAlexW2157444366

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