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ReviewJournal of clinical microbiology2012

Progress in antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida spp. by use of Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute broth microdilution methods, 2010 to 2012.

M A Pfaller, D J Diekema

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Review 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 245 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

245 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

M A PfallerJMI Laboratories, North Liberty, Iowa, USA.
D J Diekema

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida has been standardized and refined and now may play a useful role in managing Candida infections. Important new developments include validation of 24-h reading times for all antifungal agents and the establishment of species-specific epidemiological cutoff values (ECVs) for the systemically active antifungal agents and both common and uncommon species of Candida. The clinical breakpoints (CBPs) for fluconazole, voriconazole, and the echinocandins have been revised to provide species-specific interpretive criteria for the six most common species. The revised CBPs not only are predictive of clinical outcome but also provide a more sensitive means of identifying those strains with acquired or mutational resistance mechanisms. This brief review serves as an update on the new developments in the antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida spp. using Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) broth microdilution (BMD) methods.

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Antifungal AgentsCandidaCandidiasisHumansMicrobial Sensitivity TestsAntifungal Agents

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PMID22740712
PMCPMC3421803

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