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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2012

Wild-type MIC distributions and epidemiological cutoff values for amphotericin B, flucytosine, and itraconazole and Candida spp. as determined by CLSI broth microdilution.

M A Pfaller, A Espinel-Ingroff, E Canton, M Castanheira, M Cuenca-Estrella, D J Diekema, A Fothergill, J Fuller, M Ghannoum, R N Jones and 9 more

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 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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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

72 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 165 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

19 authors at 15 institutions in 5 countries.

M A PfallerJMI Laboratories, North Liberty, Iowa, USA. michael-pfaller@jmilabs.com
A Espinel-Ingroff
E Canton
M Castanheira
M Cuenca-Estrella
D J Diekema
A Fothergill
J Fuller
M Ghannoum
R N Jones
S R Lockhart
E Martin-Mazuelos
M S C Melhem
L Ostrosky-Zeichner
P Pappas
T Pelaez
J Peman
J Rex
M W Szeszs
JMI Laboratories · USHospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe · ESInstituto Adolfo Lutz · BRAstraZeneca (United Kingdom) · GBCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · USHospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón · ESHospital Universitario de Valme · ESInstituto de Salud Carlos III · ESThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · USThe University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · USUniversity Hospitals of Cleveland · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · USUniversity of Alberta · CAUniversity of Iowa · USVirginia Commonwealth University Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical breakpoints (CBPs) and epidemiological cutoff values (ECVs) have been established for several Candida spp. and the newer triazoles and echinocandins but are not yet available for older antifungal agents, such as amphotericin B, flucytosine, or itraconazole. We determined species-specific ECVs for amphotericin B (AMB), flucytosine (FC) and itraconazole (ITR) for eight Candida spp. (30,221 strains) using isolates from 16 different laboratories in Brazil, Canada, Europe, and the United States, all tested by the CLSI reference microdilution method. The calculated 24- and 48-h ECVs expressed in μg/ml (and the percentages of isolates that had MICs less than or equal to the ECV) for AMB, FC, and ITR, respectively, were 2 (99.8)/2 (99.2), 0.5 (94.2)/1 (91.4), and 0.12 (95.0)/0.12 (92.9) for C. albicans; 2 (99.6)/2 (98.7), 0.5 (98.0)/0.5 (97.5), and 2 (95.2)/4 (93.5) for C. glabrata; 2 (99.7)/2 (97.3), 0.5 (98.7)/0.5 (97.8), and 05. (99.7)/0.5 (98.5) for C. parapsilosis; 2 (99.8)/2 (99.2), 0.5 (93.0)/1 (90.5), and 0.5 (97.8)/0.5 (93.9) for C. tropicalis; 2 (99.3)/4 (100.0), 32 (99.4)/32 (99.3), and 1 (99.0)/2 (100.0) for C. krusei; 2 (100.0)/4 (100.0), 0.5 (95.3)/1 (92.9), and 0.5 (95.8)/0.5 (98.1) for C. lusitaniae; -/2 (100.0), 0.5 (98.8)/0.5 (97.7), and 0.25 (97.6)/0.25 (96.9) for C. dubliniensis; and 2 (100.0)/2 (100.0), 1 (92.7)/-, and 1 (100.0)/2 (100.0) for C. guilliermondii. In the absence of species-specific CBP values, these wild-type (WT) MIC distributions and ECVs will be useful for monitoring the emergence of reduced susceptibility to these well-established antifungal agents.

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Amphotericin BAntifungal AgentsBrazilCanadaCandidaCandidiasisEuropeFlucytosineHumansItraconazoleMicrobial Sensitivity TestsUnited StatesAmphotericin BAntifungal AgentsFlucytosineItraconazole

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PMID22461672
PMCPMC3372147
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