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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2012

Cryptococcus neoformans-Cryptococcus gattii species complex: an international study of wild-type susceptibility endpoint distributions and epidemiological cutoff values for fluconazole, itraconazole, posaconazole, and voriconazole.

A Espinel-Ingroff, A I Aller, E Canton, L R Castañón-Olivares, A Chowdhary, S Cordoba, M Cuenca-Estrella, A Fothergill, J Fuller, N Govender and 16 more

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 125 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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125citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
11.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

125 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 246 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

26 authors at 20 institutions in 12 countries.

A Espinel-IngroffVCU Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA. avingrof@vcu.edu
A I Aller
E Canton
L R Castañón-Olivares
A Chowdhary
S Cordoba
M Cuenca-Estrella
A Fothergill
J Fuller
N Govender
F Hagen
M T Illnait-Zaragozi
E Johnson
S Kidd
C Lass-Flörl
S R Lockhart
M A Martins
J F Meis
M S C Melhem
L Ostrosky-Zeichner
T Pelaez
M A Pfaller
W A Schell
G St-Germain
L Trilles
J Turnidge
Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis · NLInstituto Adolfo Lutz · BRAdministración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud · ARCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · USCentro Nacional de Microbiologia · ESDuke Medical Center · USFundação Oswaldo Cruz · BRHospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón · ESHospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe · ESHospital Universitario de Valme · ESInnsbruck Medical University · ATInstitut National de Santé Publique du Québec · CAInstituto de Medicina Tropical “Pedro Kourí” · CUNational Health Laboratory Service · ZAThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · USThe University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · USUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México · MXUniversity of Adelaide · AUUniversity of Alberta · CAUniversity of Delhi · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epidemiological cutoff values (ECVs) for the Cryptococcus neoformans-Cryptococcus gattii species complex versus fluconazole, itraconazole, posaconazole, and voriconazole are not available. We established ECVs for these species and agents based on wild-type (WT) MIC distributions. A total of 2,985 to 5,733 CLSI MICs for C. neoformans (including isolates of molecular type VNI [MICs for 759 to 1,137 isolates] and VNII, VNIII, and VNIV [MICs for 24 to 57 isolates]) and 705 to 975 MICs for C. gattii (including 42 to 260 for VGI, VGII, VGIII, and VGIV isolates) were gathered in 15 to 24 laboratories (Europe, United States, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, India, Mexico, and South Africa) and were aggregated for analysis. Additionally, 220 to 359 MICs measured using CLSI yeast nitrogen base (YNB) medium instead of CLSI RPMI medium for C. neoformans were evaluated. CLSI RPMI medium ECVs for distributions originating from at least three laboratories, which included ≥95% of the modeled WT population, were as follows: fluconazole, 8 μg/ml (VNI, C. gattii nontyped, VGI, VGIIa, and VGIII), 16 μg/ml (C. neoformans nontyped, VNIII, and VGIV), and 32 μg/ml (VGII); itraconazole, 0.25 μg/ml (VNI), 0.5 μg/ml (C. neoformans and C. gattii nontyped and VGI to VGIII), and 1 μg/ml (VGIV); posaconazole, 0.25 μg/ml (C. neoformans nontyped and VNI) and 0.5 μg/ml (C. gattii nontyped and VGI); and voriconazole, 0.12 μg/ml (VNIV), 0.25 μg/ml (C. neoformans and C. gattii nontyped, VNI, VNIII, VGII, and VGIIa,), and 0.5 μg/ml (VGI). The number of laboratories contributing data for other molecular types was too low to ascertain that the differences were due to factors other than assay variation. In the absence of clinical breakpoints, our ECVs may aid in the detection of isolates with acquired resistance mechanisms and should be listed in the revised CLSI M27-A3 and CLSI M27-S3 documents.

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Antifungal AgentsAustraliaCryptococcosisCryptococcus gattiiDrug Resistance, FungalEuropeFluconazoleHumansIndiaItraconazoleMicrobial Sensitivity TestsNorth AmericaPyrimidinesSouth AfricaSouth AmericaTriazolesAntifungal AgentsFluconazoleItraconazoleposaconazolePyrimidinesTriazolesVoriconazole

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PMID22948877
PMCPMC3486550
OpenAlexW2121969999

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